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Death Penalty System Fatally Flawed

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That's the title of an OpEd from the Saturday San Antonio Express-News by former Bexar County District Attorney Sam Millsap.  LINKAccording to a report released last week by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty ? Texas Death Penalty Developments in 2008: The Year in Review ? this year Texas juries condemned the fewest number of people to death in more than 30 years. As of Dec. 10, a total of 10 people (nine men and one woman) had been sentenced to death in Texas in 2008. Perhaps this reflects the public's growing uneasiness with the death penalty or prosecutors' recognition that the costs of the ultimate punishment ? both human and financial ? are too high. Or perhaps my fellow Texans have come to share my realization that a fallible system that puts people to death simply cannot be trusted...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).