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State Legislative Roundup

By Steve Hall

The State Column posts, "Death Penalty Legislation Under Review in a Number of States."Both Connecticut and Georgia are proposing changes to laws governing the death penalty reflecting a growing trend in state politics.In Georgia, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to strip a so-called ?proportionality review? from the state?s death-penalty statute. In Connecticut, the state legislature will most likely revive an effort to ban capital punishment, and two leading Democrats running for governor in November say they would not have vetoed a bill to ban executions, as the state?s Republican governor did.In the state of Georgia, the issue is over a proportionality review, which legal experts have called a critical part of the state?s capital punishment law...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).