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Texas House Committee Hears Death Penalty Bills

By Steve Hall

"Bill to ban death penalty doomed, but supporters undeterred," is the title of Karen Brooks' report for the Dallas Morning News. If there is one proposal that is already on death row in the staunchly conservative Legislature, it?s the bill to abolish the death penalty.But that didn?t stop the lively discussion on the issue in a House committee Tuesday.?We need to end the death penalty. Not sit around and think about it,? said Gratia Winship, an Austinite whose friend, Michael Cahill, was murdered in the 1970s.After years of being shut out of the discussion, Winship and others like her gave lawmakers hours of testimony on bills that would mostly chip away at, or do away with, the death penalty.Among them were measures to create a moratorium, limit testimony that can be allowed in a death penalty case, and require confessions to be recorded on video...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).