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Thr Carrboro Citizen carries an OpEd by Stephen Dear & Diann Rust-Tierney, "North Carolina needs to rethink the death penalty."  Dear is executive director of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty; Rust-Tierney the executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.Recently, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, crime victims? advocates and both Republican and Democratic state legislators in New Jersey worked together to pass legislation to repeal that state?s death penalty. Gov. Jon Corzine signed the bill into law last month, making New Jersey the first state to legislatively repeal the death penalty since Iowa and West Virginia did so back in 1965. Despite some significant reforms, death penalty systems in other states, such as North Carolina, remain awash in blunders, racial and class bias and runaway expenses, and are long overdue for systematic reviews by their legislatures...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).