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"Life with no parole: It's use may expand," is the Florida Times-Union report about Georgia legislation poised to become law.  It's written by Teresa Stepzinski.A measure that would allow prosecutors to seek life without parole sentences in non-death penalty murder cases awaits Gov. Sonny Perdue's signature after the measure passed unanimously in the Georgia House and Senate. Purdue hasn't commented publicly about the measure that passed last week, but lawyers on both side of murder cases have. Georgia's district attorneys support the bill, but many defense lawyers oppose it. "We backed the life without parole bill because some murderers never deserve to see the light of day ... This legislation gives us a way to see that a person never gets out of prison to kill someone else," said Rick Currie, district attorney of the Waycross Judicial Circuit and president of the District Attorney's Association of Georgia...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).