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The Slow Death of the Death Penalty?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of the CBS New Sunday Morning cover story.  It's reported by Seth Doane.  There is video at the LINK.  Here's the opening:Ronnie Lee Gardner deserves to die: So say the people of Utah, where he killed a bartender in cold blood, then murdered an attorney during an escape attempt. Gaile Owens also faces death, in Tennessee on September 28, for hiring someone to kill her husband in 1985. Just after midnight this Friday, barring a last-minute stay, Gardner will become the 28th person put to death in the United States this year. Ordinarily, executions attract little national attention, but this one is different. If his appeal is denied, Gardner has chosen to die by firing squad. He will be strapped to a chair, a hood pulled over his head, and a target placed over his heart, and he will be shot to death ...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).