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Life After Death

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Michael Hall's editorial column Behind the Lines in the January issue of Texas Monthly.  It's subtitled, "Why we need a moratorium on the death penalty in Texas."  Here are excerpts from this must-Read: It?s time to halt executions in Texas. The flaws in our death penalty system have become too obvious to ignore any longer. Five times in the past seven years we?ve learned about a person wrongly convicted and taken off death row or a person convicted on bogus forensic science?and executed. It?s clear: Until the day comes when we are able to guarantee that our system will never put innocent men and women to death, we can?t continue to use a form of punishment that is irreversible. It?s time for Texas to put a moratorium on capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).