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Alabama Editorials Support Moratorium

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Today's Birmingham News carries the editorial, "A stopping point."Alabama has a lousy track record when it comes to the death penalty, and it needs to give its execution chamber a rest. That's what the state would be required to do under a bill sponsored by state Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma. The legislation, which passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, would impose a three-year timeout on executions. The purpose would be to give the state time to ensure the ultimate punishment is correctly and fairly applied. The bill is one of the most important measures the Legislature could ever pass, because it is truly a matter of life and death. Unfortunately, Sanders' moratorium bill has become a hardy (more or less) perennial...continue to full post

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