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Fast Track DP in Utah? The Utah legislature is considering putting a constitutional amendment on the 2010 ballot that would shorten post conviction review of death penalty cases. The measure, which has been proposed by the Attorney General, would set time limits for raising constitutional claims in the state courts. A story by Pamela Manson of the Salt Lake City Tribune quotes one Deputy AG who said that under the current lax post conviction review process, "we have the death penalty on the books, but no death penalty." Murderer's Appeal Rejected: A Texas inmate convicted and sentenced to death for murdering an accomplice by giving him a lethal injection of heroin while they shared a cell in the El Paso County jail, has lost his bid for review by the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 13, 2008 (boomark / email).