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AL.com carries the AP dispatch, "Alabama senator to try death penalty moratorium for 8th time."  The legislator is Senator Hank Sanders.The Selma Democrat announced Tuesday that when the Legislature convenes Feb. 5, he will again sponsor legislation to place a three-year moratorium on executions in Alabama. Legislative records show Sanders has been introducing the moratorium bill annually since at least 2001, but it has never been approved by the Senate, much less the House. Sanders was joined at a windy outdoor news conference Tuesday by supporters of his bill. Judy Cumbee, first vice president of the Alabama New South Coalition, said the wind was symbolic. "These are winds of change," she said as she brushed her hair out of her face...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 30, 2008 (boomark / email).