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Is Texas Changing Its Mind About the Death Penalty?

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That's the title of Hilary Hylton's report at Time magazine's website.  LINKTexas has executed prisoners with a regularity and in record numbers that has earned the state worldwide attention. But, while Texas still led the U.S. in executions in 2008, juries in the state appear to have began to turn away from the ultimate punishment even for the most heinous crimes. Ten men and one woman were sentenced to death in Texas in 2008, according to the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. It was the lowest annual figure since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty. Texas handed out more than 20 death sentences in each of 2003 and 2004. In 2005, the number fell to 14, and it has not risen above that annual figure since...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).