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Unjust Death Penalty

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That's the title of an editorial in today's Fort Wayne Journal Gazette regarding an Indiana death sentence.  LINKReinstatement of the death penalty against Joseph Corcoran marks another sad twist in a cruel and misplaced effort to extract justice from a mentally ill man. The sentence should again be thrown out on appeal, and Indiana lawmakers, in the meantime, should finally pass a law banning the execution of the mentally ill. Corcoran is a prime example of why such a law is needed. He demonstrated classic signs of paranoid schizophrenia when he shot to death his brother, his sister?s fiancé and two other men in 1997 because he thought they were talking about him. Five years earlier, he had been charged but acquitted in the shotgun slaying of his parents...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).