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Alabama Reaction to UN Report

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Today's Birmingham News has the editorial, "Alabama on the world stage."If the report were aimed at some backwater on the other side of the globe, perhaps our reaction would be different. We'd read: "Government officials seem strikingly indifferent to the risk of executing innocent people." And, surely, we'd be at least a little outraged. But this damning assessment isn't about some place across the world. It's about Alabama. It's included in a report made Monday to the United Nations. Philip Alston, a law professor who reports to the U.N. on such things as arbitrary executions, looked at two of America's death penalty leaders, Texas and Alabama, and found similar problems. But at least he found "significant recognition" in Texas that changes are needed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).