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"AG Brown says he'll follow law on the death peanlty," is the AP report by Don Thompson, via the San Jose Mercury News.Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday he understands that California's support for the death penalty is now "part of the landscape," even though he opposed executions when he was governor a generation ago. Brown vetoed the death penalty bill while he was governor from 1974 to 1982, but was overridden by the Legislature at the time. He also appointed state Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird, who was removed by voters in 1986 for her anti-death penalty rulings. But the issue has long since been decided, he told reporters after addressing the California Law Enforcement Alliance's 17th annual Law Enforcement Legislative Day conference in Sacramento...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).