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Another Editorial Call for Pennsylvania Moratorium

By Steve Hall

Today's Pocono Record carries the editorial, "Suspend death penalty pending further study."On March 31 a Connecticut judge freed two inmates after they had spent 16 years in prison for a murder they never committed. The judge called the men victims of "manifest injustice."In some states, including Pennsylvania, murderers can be put to death for their crime. What happens if evidence shows, years afterward as it did in this case, that the so-called "murderers" were not involved? If the evidence came too late to save the convicted prisoner from an unwarranted death? The death penalty just created another victim.The League of Women Voters of Monroe County will discuss the death penalty on Saturday during another of its popular public forums at the Hughes Library in Stroudsburg...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).