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By Steve Hall

Today's Birmingham News carries the editorial, "A committee in the Alabama House should vote in favor of a bill that would place a three-year hold on executions in the state."With all the things that need to be fixed with Alabama's broken death penalty system, it ought to be a no-brainer for lawmakers to call a timeout on executions. Members of the House Judiciary Committee have a chance today to advance a perennial piece of legislation which would do just that -- impose a three-year freeze on executions. The House moratorium bill, sponsored by state Rep. Merika Coleman with the backing of a number of other Birmingham-area lawmakers, would put a hold on capital punishment to give the state an opportunity to address some of the more glaring problems with the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).