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Kim Smith reports, "'Mitigation specialist' has weighty court job: trying to spare a life," in the Monday Arizona Daily Star.When it comes to questions of life or death, even the most heinous of convicted killers is entitled to argue that he or she should be spared execution. Digging up information that will persuade judges and juries to favor life in prison over death row is the job of a new breed of legal worker, the "mitigation specialist." Oddly enough, some of the most critical nuggets that could help spare a killer's life can be the most difficult to come by, said Cheryl Fisher, who spends months interviewing and re-interviewing murder suspects and their families, tracking down decades' worth of documents and re-creating the past...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).