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Justice Seeks Executions' End

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pThat#39;s the title of Jack Elliott, Jr.#39;s, AP report, via Mississippi#39;s Jackson Clarion-Ledger.#0160; a href=http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20081221/NEWS/812210370/1001LINK/a/pdiv style=margin-left: 40px;Outgoing Mississippi Justice Oliver Diaz Jr.#39;s impassioned call for an end to the death penalty has drawn both criticism and praise.br //divp style=margin-left: 40px; In what was likely his departing dissent as his tenure on Mississippi#39;s highest court ends, Diaz says society finally must recognize that quot;even as murderers commit the most cruel and unusual crime, so too do executioners render cruel and unusual punishment.quot;/pp style=margin-left: 40px; Jimmy Robertson, a Jackson attorney who served on the state Supreme Court from 1983 to 1992, said Diaz laid out a number of points, including that the death penalty is not a deterrent to murder, that were quot;pretty close to being irrefutable to anybody that#39;s objective on the question...continue to full post

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