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Death Penalty Will Always Put Innocent Lives at Risk

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That's the title of an OpEd in Annapolis's The Capital by Sam Millsap.  LINK  Here's the beginning of this must-read:In recommending an end to the state's death penalty, the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment overwhelmingly supported a critical finding: Maryland's death penalty system carries a real risk of executing an innocent person. At the risk of being called a carpetbagger, I want to address this issue from Texas, the execution capital of the free world, and echo the commission's findings that the risk is real - even in Maryland.I am no wild-eyed, pointy-headed liberal from some out of the way backwash. I am the former elected district attorney in San Antonio, Texas, the seventh-largest city in America, and was, until a few years ago, a strong supporter of the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).