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At Jurist, Bryan McCann of the Austin chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty writes, "Texas death penalty out of step with public attitudes in post-Baze America."As I type this, an email appeared in my inbox announcing that a State District Judge has withdrawn the execution order for Charles Dean Hood, who was scheduled to receive a lethal injection in about half an hour. The death penalty is on the defensive in a way it has not been since it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court amid the movements and struggles of the early 1970s. Slowly but surely, ordinary people are recognizing the death penalty for what it is: a barbaric, racist practice that almost always punishes the poor, sentences the innocent to die, and fails to prevent crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).