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"House panel votes down bill to abolish the death penalty," is Mike Dennison's report in the Helena Independent Record.A House committee this morning voted down the bill to abolish the death penalty in Montana, likely killing the bill.On an 8-10 vote, the House Judiciary Committee against Senate Bill 236, which would abolish the death penalty in the state and replace it with a sentence of life in prison without parole.All nine Republicans on the evenly split committee voted against the bill, as did Democratic Rep. Arlene Becker of Billings. The panel?s remaining eight Democrats voted for the measure.Unless supporters of SB236 can somehow change a vote in the committee or revive the bill on the House floor -- which is unlikely -- the bill is dead...continue to full post

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