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Eric Holder: Help Save 49 Lives, Please!

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That's the title of a post at Huffington Post by Claudia Ricci, who teaches journalism at Georgetown University.  LINK  Here's an extended excerpt:I have a lawyer friend -- a criminal defense attorney -- who is also a Buddhist. He lives his life in a deeply mindful and respectful way. He is passionately opposed to the death penalty and he has written tomes trying to bring attention to the injustices of individual cases all across the country. I've told him to write a book. He has, in effect, already written it. Well, anyway, today he emailed me to say that he is starting a campaign, and an urgent petition drive, in an effort to try to save 49 lives -- all of those people who currently face the death penalty in federal penitentiaries...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).