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There are editorials today from Kansas and Florida.  The Wichita Eagle has, "Death penalty costly, isn't working." Credit state Sen. Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick, with getting a legislative hearing today for her proposed repeal of the death penalty. That alone is a feat in Kansas, where 65 percent of those polled this week by SurveyUSA said they support the death penalty. Though her stand puts her at odds with the majority of Kansans and even the state's Democratic attorney general, McGinn deserves to be heard. She has never been a strong supporter of the death penalty, but her motivations are timely and sound, including the high cost of prosecuting capital crimes in a time of budget cuts. "We have to look at restructuring government moving forward," McGinn told The Eagle editorial board this week...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).