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Lufkin Daily News calls for abolition of the death penalty

By "Persian Cowboy"

Lufkin Daily News has joined the growing list of Texas publications calling for abolition of the death penalty....Not only has the death penalty proven ineffective as a deterrent, it has also proven to be extremely expensive. It costs much less to keep a murderer in prison for life than it does to defend a death penalty throughout an exhaustive appeals process. And the best argument against the death penalty is ... there's no undoing it if innocence is proven. A district attorney in Oregon made another good point for avoiding the death penalty ? the "needless anguish" that families of murder victims suffer during what can be decades of appeals, litigation and retrials. There are district attorneys in Texas who are ambivalent about the death penalty as well...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on December 28, 2007 (boomark / email).