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Houston Chronicle: Texas in Sleazy Clique that Continues Using Death Penalty

By "Persian Cowboy"

The Houston Chronicle editorial board has been critical of the death penalty before and has published editorials that seemed to be moving the position of the paper closer to supporting abolishing the death penalty, but they still have not yet came out clearly for ending the death penalty. Today's editorial is another one in which they come close to saying they favor abolishing the death penalty, but they again chose not to make a clear statement.Of the total executed in the U.S., 24 occurred in Texas, four times that of the closest competitor, Alabama. Only 10 of the 50 states carried out the death penalty last year.If Texas were an independent nation, we would be the seventh-largest practitioner of capital punishment, just a smidgen behind Yemen, a failed state with a medieval judicial system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).