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"Death Row: Proposals For Speedier Appeals," is Jon Lender's report in today's Hartford Courant.  Here's an extended excerpt:Responding to lawmakers' concerns about interminable delays under the state's state death penalty law, Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane is offering proposals to streamline the appeals process. The proposals ? to require transcripts of proceedings to be prepared more quickly, and to limit habeas corpus petitions in state courts ? will get a public hearing Friday from the state legislature's judiciary committee at 10 a.m. Friday in the Legislative Office Building. The committee's co-chairmen, Rep. Michael Lawlor, D- East Haven, and Sen. Andrew McDonald, D- Stamford, asked Kane to draft the proposals in response to criticism by death penalty supporters that the state's appeals process is to blame for the rarity of executions in Connecticut...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).