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In The Nation

By Steve Hall

The Nation's current issue features the monthly column, Ten Things.  This month it's, "Ten Things to Abolish the Death Penalty," conceived by Walter Mosley, with research by Rae Gomes.  As in all things death penalty, it's Texas heavy.  Here's an extended excerpt from this must read: On March 9th, Illinois became the fourth US state in the past five years to abandon the death penalty, a significant shift in the country's growing rejection of capital punishment. After weeks of deliberation, Republican Governor Pat Quinn not only signed a bill into law that kills the death penalty in the state, he also commuted the sentences of all 15 men on death row?men who would have still faced execution even with the new law in place...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).