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Dallas Morning Newser Michael Landauer has launched a Texas Death Penalty blog.  I'll add it to the left-column webroll. The latest installment is titled, "Death penalty good or bad for an unstable government?"  Here's an excerpt from that post:The European union has decried the use of the death penalty in Iraq this month, after a recent spike in the number of executions. Their main argument seems to be that it does no good to a country that is trying to emerge from a bitter and divise war. We had a speaker in a couple of years back from Rwanda who explained it pretty well from the vantage point of someone who had been imprisoned and sentenced to death there. One group gets in power and trumps up charges against its enemies, then executes them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).