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"Gut-wrenching testimony from both sides in death penalty debate," is the Billings Gazette's report of today's House Judiciary Committee hearing.  It's written by Mike Dennison.The debate whether to abolish Montana?s death penalty pitted prosecutor against prosecutor and crime victim against crime victim Wednesday, as a bill repealing the penalty had its first hearing in the House.The bill, which has passed the Senate, drew support from high-profile figures like former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Karla Gray and Jim Bromgard, the Billings man who spent 15 years in prison for rape before he was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2002.Bromgard said if the victim, a young girl, had been murdered, he might have been wrongly sentenced to death and exe-cuted before the hair samples used to convict him were found to be erroneous...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).