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A Response to 'Justice Served'

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E.A Stine, producer of KPFT's Execution Watch, has an OpEd letter in today's Amarillo Globe News. "Capital punishment is wrong."  It's a response to the newspaper's editorial earlier this month, "Justice Served," and noted here.The June 9 editorial, "Justice served," criticizes protesters of Gov. Perry's 200th execution for focusing too much on Texas' high rate of executions, overlooking the horrors of the crimes punished and portraying capital punishment as a "haphazard rush to judgment." The execution rate is important because it's striking. Whether you live in Amarillo or Houston, you're a Texan and have a right to know that Texas is viewed internationally as the death penalty capital of the western world and why...continue to full post

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