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"Senate Committee Hears Testimony Over Abolishing the Death Penalty," is Keith Vance's report in the Seattle Courant. In Olympia today the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony today on whether to abolish the death penalty. While committee chair Sen. Adam Kline said this is a contentious issue, no one testified in favor of keeping the death penalty. Some of the proponents of senate bill 5476 came from the Washington State Catholic Conference, Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and the bill's sponsor Ed Murray, D-Seattle. Murray said that the legislature should ask whether the death penalty is a cost-effective method of punishment, has it been applied fairly and is it humane. How many times have people been exonerated by D...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).