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Death Penalty Matters - The SMU Human Rights Series

By Steve Hall

The Dallas Morning News Death Penalty blog posts, "Why don't people in Texas talk about the death penalty?"  It's by Rick Halperin, Director of SMU's Human Rights program. The death penalty in America should be a topic of constant discussion in public forums and political conversation. The reality is that, in Texas - the state that has executed more people than any other single jurisdiction in the free world since 1976 - the silence about the death penalty is deafening.With 3,200 people in more than 30 states waiting to be killed by electrocution, firing squad, gassing, hanging and chemical poisoning, how can it not generate discussion?The answer is twofold. First, many Texans (and Americans) simply aren't aware of the issue...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 06, 2010 (boomark / email).