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"A golden opportunity to end the death penalty," is William Long's OpEd in the Oregonian.  Long is the author of A Tortured History: The Story of Capital Punishment in Oregon.Easy to overlook in the heady enthusiasm among death penalty opponents after Gov. Bill Richardson signed a bill on March 18 doing away with New Mexico's death penalty are three lessons that the experience in that state bequeaths to activists throughout the country. First, death penalty abolition only happens after a concerted effort, often more than a decade long, to build a credible and convincing movement. Second, abolition occurs when a coherent, easy-to-articulate message is developed. Finally, abolition in our day arises when an argument hitherto unexplored in death penalty debate is convincingly presented...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).