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A Death Penalty Appeal to a Higher Authority

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That's the title of a brief article in the Sunday Washington Post on a Maryland state senator.  LINK Sen. Alex X. Mooney (R-Frederick) was widely seen last year as the swing vote on the Maryland Senate committee that killed a proposed repeal of Maryland's death penalty. Mooney has a conservative record but as a Catholic found himself wrestling with a bill that called for abolishing capital punishment and replacing it with life without parole. The legislation is back this year and faces long odds again, with Mooney still the deciding vote. He says he's still wrestling. He has lately joked with colleagues that Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Washington in April could push him over the edge. If the Catholic leader, an opponent of the death penalty, were to tap him on the shoulder and personally share his views ...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).