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The Death Penalty in Pennsylvania

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The Pittsburg Post-Gazette has two news articles on the state of capital punishment.  First, "States finding death penalty's costs prohibitive," by Daniel Malloy.Costs of lengthy trials, repeated appeals and specialized housing add up, making it more difficult for states to pay for inmates who have been sentenced to death than to life in prison. As many states grapple with budget crises, lawmakers increasingly are scrutinizing the death penalty on fiscal, rather than philosophical, grounds. Earlier this year, the New Mexico state Legislature passed a bill to abolish the death penalty and Maryland limited its application to cases in which prosecutors present DNA or biological evidence, a video of the crime or a confession...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).