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From Montana, where a repeal bill has passed the Senate, and Alaska, where some want to add the death penalty."Religious leaders sign letter asking legislators to end death penalty," is in today's Great Falls Tribune.Religious leaders from across the state are urging the Montana State Legislature to end the death penalty.A letter to the legislators signed by 80 reverends, rabbis, pastors and preachers urges support of a bill that would replace the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.Several clergy members were in Great Falls on Thursday to release a copy of the letter in a press conference at the Civic Center."This represents a longstanding commitment the Episcopal Church has to eliminating the death penalty," said Bishop Franklin Brookhart of the Episcopalian Diocese of Montana...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).