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Alaska Speaker to Introduce Death Penalty Bill

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"Death penalty debate resumes," is Sean Cockerham's report in the Anchorage Daily News.Incoming state House speaker Mike Chenault is pushing to reinstate the death penalty in Alaska, and Gov. Sarah Palin is all for it. So is state Rep. Jay Ramras, who says "hang 'em high," and that he would pass a death penalty bill out of the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs. But opponents, including influential members of the state Senate, say the death penalty is ineffective, expensive and racist. Chenault's death penalty bill was one of dozens submitted Friday, the first day legislators can pre-file in advance of this year's legislative session, which starts Jan. 20. Proposals filed Friday range from $250 million in bonds to help with an in-state natural gas pipeline to designating the malamute as the state dog...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).