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The Birmingham News today has an editorial, "Two families suffered this past week because the Alabama attorney general was so eager to proceed with an execution."Two families suffered this past week because state prosecutors were so eager to proceed with an execution. The U.S. Supreme Court, not surprisingly, stopped it. The normal path to a killer's execution is terribly hard on two families - the killer's family, and the family of his victims. Because issues of life and death are involved, the capital cases receive extra attention from the courts. They are held to a higher standard, and they are regularly overturned and sent back for new trials or additional work. There are execution dates set, followed by delays. At every step along the journey, hopes are raised on one side, dashed on the other...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).