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No End In Sight to Death Penalty Wrangling

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That's the title of an excellent Stateline.org roundup on current capital punishment issues.  It's written by John Gramlich and contains a number of charts and graphs.  LINK  Here's an excerpt from the beginning of this lengthy article.More than 30 years after it was reinstated by the nation?s highest court, the death penalty in the United States still faces serious legal and political challenges, even as a persistent majority of the American public believes convicted murderers should be executed. The United States is among a handful of industrialized countries to sanction capital punishment, and it has executed more than 15,000 people since colonial days. More than 1,100 prisoners have been put to death since 1976, when the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).