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alt.spring.break

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Death penalty alt- spring break is now a little over a week away. This year it is is Austin, 10-14. Alternative Spring Breaks are designed to give college and high school students something more meaningful to do during their week off, rather than just spending time at the beach or sitting at home catching up on school work. The specific purpose of this Alternative Spring Break is to bring students to Austin for five days of anti-death penalty activism, education and entertainment. Texas leads the nation by far in number of executions. Texas performed 62 percent of all the executions in the United States in 2007. Twenty-six people were executed in Texas in 2007. There were 42 executions in the U.S. in 2007. Since the U.S Supreme Court ruling in 1976 that allowed executions to resume after a four-year period during which they were considered unconstitutional, there have been 1099 executions in the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).