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Anti-Death Penalty Movement Wooing Conservatives

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an AP report, via Monday's Washington Post.  It's written by Brent Barrouquere.  LINKRoy Brown seems like a rarity - a conservative who's against the death penalty. But to Brown, a state senator and the 2008 Republican nominee for governor of Montana, the philosophy aligns perfectly with conservative ideology. He's one of the more high-profile figures reaching out to other social and fiscal conservatives, hoping to create a bipartisan movement against capital punishment. "I believe that life is precious from the womb to a natural death," Brown said. The Roman Catholic church has long been an organized and vocal critic of the death penalty, but the new effort is trying to bring in other conservatives shaped by both evangelical faiths and political ideology...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).