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"Death Penalty Repeal Advances," is the Hartford Courant editorial.During the past five years, three states ? New York, New Jersey and New Mexico ? have abolished the death penalty for capital crimes. Connecticut's House of Representatives took this state a step closer to joining them by voting 90-56 Wednesday to repeal its capital punishment statute. We hope the state Senate follows suit and that Gov. M. Jodi Rell's support for the death penalty can be overcome. The state shouldn't be in the business of killing people. Besides, the evidence shows that in some states, the ultimate penalty is more likely to be unfairly imposed on members of minority groups. Further, it's a chilling fact that some defendants who have been sentenced to death have later been found not to have committed the crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).