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On the Schwab Execution

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Florida Today has an editorial, "Our view: Finally it's over."Justice has been served, closing out a painful chapter in Brevard County history. But Schwab's execution won't end the debate about the badly broken death penalty system in Florida. In fact, it should begin a serious discussion on whether capital punishment in Florida should be abolished and replaced with life in prison without the possibility of parole. Figures from the Death Penalty Information Center and a 2006 study by leading state prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges for the American Bar Association show why that should probably occur: Florida has released more wrongfully convicted inmates from Death Row than any other state -- 22 since 1973. Persons with severe mental disabilities have been executed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 02, 2008 (boomark / email).