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Slow-Death Capital Punishment Affirmed

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That's the title of Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jim Wooten's blog post.  It refers to legislation that will allow Georgia prosecutors to seek a life without paroles sentence in capital cases.  Current Georgia law allows that sentence in capital case only if a death sentence is sought.  LINKGeorgia effectively ended capital punishment Wednesday ? the capital punishment by lethal injection, anyway ? in approving an easier route to life without parole.  The House vote was 164-0. The bill had already passed the Senate so it goes now to Gov. Sonny Perdue for his signature. This means, of course, that Georgia will pass from one generation to the next an aging population of murderers too evil to live free as wards of the state until the end of their natural lives...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).