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"Abortion, death penalty wins slow in coming on state-by-state basis," is Mark Pattison's report via Baltimore's Catholic Review.If Roe v. Wade ? the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal nationwide at virtually any point in a woman?s pregnancy ? were overturned, the matter would most likely be sent back to the 50 states and require campaigns to restrict or outlaw abortion to be waged on a state-by-state basis. There?s another life issue that?s been the subject of state-by-state campaigns for 30-plus years: abolition of the death penalty. After the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed states to reinstate the death penalty, 37 states had laws on the books permitting the use of capital punishment, and nearly all of those states have executed a prisoner...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).