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Death Cases Among Early Issues for New Justice

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That's the title of a report by AP's Mark Sherman, via Google News.  It was filed in Washington on Saturday.  LINKSonia Sotomayor has never confronted the contentious issue of the death penalty as a federal judge, but she was a director of a Puerto Rican advocacy group that opposed capital punishment in the 1980s.Sotomayor was part of a three-person committee at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund that recommended opposing a legislative proposal to re-institute the death penalty in New York. The group adopted the panel's position in 1981, explaining in a letter to then-Gov. Hugh Carey that "capital punishment represents ongoing racism within our society."An examination of the group's records did not turn up any death penalty-related writings directly attributable to Sotomayor...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).