Carter increased the number of black state employees, judges, and board members. He placed portraits of Martin Luther King Jr. in the capitol building, even as the Ku Klux Klan protested the ceremony. During a televised appearance with Governor of Florida Reubin Askew in January 1973, Carter said he supported a constitutional amendment to ban busing to make the process of desegregation in schools faster. He co-sponsored an anti-busing resolution with George Wallace at the 1971 National Governors Conference. which Carter also hosted. Carter signed a new death penalty law after the United States Supreme Court rejected it. Carter later regretted supporting the death penalty, saying, "I didn't see the injustice of it as I do now".