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Judge Favors Sentence Other Than Death

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That's the title of an article in today's Cleburne Times-Review by Pete Kendall.  LINK  Here are several excerpts from this must-read:No legal system is perfect, said Cleburne resident and senior district judge C.C. ?Kit? Cooke.That includes the one in Maryland being altered to custom-fit that state?s capital murder offenders, he said.Gov. Martin O?Malley said said that this month he will sign into law major restrictions on when offenders may be sentenced to death. The death penalty will only be allowed in Maryland when defendants are linked to the offense through DNA or other biological evidence, videotaped confessions or videotaped evidence.It may be the most rigid bundle of limitations on capital murder punishment in the United States, and it is flawed, Cooke said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).