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Aversion to Death Penalty, but No Lack of Cases

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That's the title of an article in today's New York Times reported by Alan Feuer.  LINKThey are an ignominious bunch: two Bronx heroin dealers who murdered an informant, a father and son who killed three people in a drug deal, a Brooklyn gangster hired in the killing of a husband for the victim?s wife. These five men are linked not only by the nature of their crimes but by the fact that federal juries in New York decided that they should not be put to death. In the 20 years since the federal death penalty statute was revived, no federal juries have been more reluctant to sentence federal defendants to death than those in New York. According to records compiled by the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which coordinates the defense of capital punishment cases, federal prosecutors in New York State have asked juries to impose death sentences 19 times since 1988...continue to full post

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