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South Dakota House Rejects Repeal Bill

By Steve Hall

"SD lawmakers refused to repeal death penalty," is the AP report via KTIV-TV.A move to repeal the death penalty in South Dakota has once again been rejected in the state Legislature. The House Health Committee voted 8-5 to kill a measure that would have repealed the death penalty and changed the sentence for all death-row inmates to life in prison without parole.The bill's main sponsor, Rep. Gerald Lange of Madison, says the death penalty is immoral. Lange has sponsored similar bills in past years. And:South Dakota has two men on death row. Their appeals are pending in federal court.Today's Yankton Press & Dakotan carries the editorial, "As We See It: Deadly Serious."THUMBS DOWN to news that the South Dakota Legislature has once again killed a bill that would repeal the death penalty...continue to full post

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