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What sets Rick Reed apart...

By "Persian Cowboy"

Rick Reed has the smarter, more progressive stance on the issue of capital punishment...No doubt about it ... heinous, horrific crimes occasionally take place in Travis County. When they do, Rick Reed understands and respects the pain felt by the victims' friends and family members.But Rick Reed also believes the procedure of strapping human beings to a table and injecting them with a chemical cocktail that anesthetizes them, paralyzes them and then sends them into cardiac arrest, is never an acceptable way for a civilized society to respond to the crimes those human beings committed.Especially when we consider the fact that some of the persons strapped to that table may not have committed the crime for which they are being executed.Rick Reed wants to make one thing very clear -- under his leadership, the Travis County District Attorney's office will not seek the death penalty in any case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).