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Death Penalty Decisions Loom

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That's the title of a lengthy Politico report by Josh Gerstein.  LINK  Here's an extended excerpt from the beginning of the article:For the first time in his career, President Barack Obama may soon confront one of the most weighty and unsavory decisions that a chief executive must make, whether to put a murder convict to death.The decision could land on Obama?s desk within a matter of months, due to cases winding their way through the federal courts. And while Obama is on record supporting the death penalty for particularly heinous crimes, that?s a far cry from deciding whether a specific man?s life should be taken or spared.?The death penalty in the abstract is one thing. The reality of the death penalty and all of its nasty details is a very different thing,? said Dianne Rust-Tierney of the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).