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OpEd Roundup

By Steve Hall

In Illinois, today's Chicago Tribune carries the OpEd, "Moratorium means agonizing legal limbo."  It's by Mike Lawrence, a former journalist and press secretary to Gov. Jim Edgar from 1991 to 1997. Illinois' 10-year moratorium on executions has kept us from killing the wrongly convicted while we added significant protections against error. But it has not abated the agony of jurors like Sue Grbic or the angst of victims like the 52-year-old woman who was raped and battered by a man who murdered 11 people. It has spared politicians who are eager to appease both friends and foes of the death penalty. "Although he supports capital punishment when applied carefully and fairly, he is deeply concerned by the possibility of an innocent man or women being executed," a spokeswoman for Gov...continue to full post

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