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Editorial Roundup

By Steve Hall

There are editorials from California, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, and North Carolina.  The Pocono Record also has a relevant column. The Long Beach Press-Telegram carries the editorial, "Death penalty needs reforms."  The editorial originally appeared last week in the Silicon Valley Mercury News, and is noted here. "Innocence commission to investigate wrongly convicted long overdue," is from yesterday's South Florida Sun-Sentinel.Now, a group of 60 lawyers and former state Supreme Court justices aims to eliminate these miscarriages of justice. In December, former American Bar Association president and Florida State University president emeritus Sandy D'Alemberte petitioned the court to create a Florida Actual Innocence Commission to investigate what led to wrongful convictions and prescribe new reforms...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).