Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Less Pain, More Injustice and Pain

By standdown

That's the title of an OpEd in Sunday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, written by James Abbott.  He is the police chief of West Orange, New Jersey, and served on the state's death penalty study commission.  LINKLast month, New Jersey's legislature and governor replaced the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without parole. The measure has been hailed as an historic moment across the country. I guess that makes sense, because no state had legislatively abolished its death penalty in more than 50 years. But I want to share the view from where I sit: a police chief who long supported the death penalty. Watching this debate evolve over the years and then unexpectedly being caught up in the middle of it, I don't think the vote was historic at all...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 22, 2008 (boomark / email).