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"Lawmakers  look to fix, repeal death penalty," is Ken Dixon's report.  It appeared in the Sunday editions of the Stamford Advocate and the Connecticut Post.Lawmakers this week are expected to debate whether Connecticut's most-violent murderers should face life in prison without the possibility of release, or to continue a drawn-out capital-punishment process that has kept inmates on death row for decades. Reform-minded lawmakers say it's more cost-effective for the state to lock up the most-depraved killers for the rest of their lives and eliminate the expensive, prolonged appeals process, which indefinitely extends capital-felony cases and gives victims' families little chance for closure. But Chief State's Attorney Kevin T...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).