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By Steve Hall

The Orlando Homicide Report blog of the Orlando Sentinel has, "Even people who helped reinstante the death penalty think it?s a failure," posted by Willoughby Mariano. The New York Times posted a fascinating article about the death penalty. The American Law Institute, an organization of lawyers, judges and law professors that helped reinstate and shape the death penalty, doesn?t want anything to do with it anymore. ?[T]he institute voted in October to disavow the structure it had created ?in light of the current intractable institutional and structural obstacles to ensuring a minimally adequate system for administering capital punishment.? That last sentence contains some pretty dense lawyer talk, but it can be untangled. What the institute was saying is that the capital justice system in the United States is irretrievably broken...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).