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Kansas City Star Calls for Missouri Moratorium

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"Moratorium on Missouri executions makes sense," is the title of the Kansas City Star editorial.  It appeared in the Sunday edition.  Executions in Missouri are on hold ? again.Any delay is to be applauded. The death penalty is expensive and impossible to mete out fairly. It is simply a flawed public policy.But Missouri is allowing inmate appeals to determine how and when the state administers capital punishment. The on-again, off-again pace of executions is excruciating for family members of both victims and inmates.Incoming state Supreme Court Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. said last week the state will likely schedule no execution dates while officials await the outcome of a federal appeal filed on behalf of death row inmate Reginald Clemons...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 29, 2009 (boomark / email).