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Debate Over Capital Punishment

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Dallas Morning News.  The latest commentary on Justice John Paul Stevens' essay. "On the Death Sentence,"  Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and author David Garland have both dived into the national discussion over the death penalty this fall, with the bigger waves being kicked up by the recently retired jurist. And: Stevens and Garland point out one benefit that is glaringly evident in Texas: support for the death penalty "wins votes," the justice says. An NYU law and sociology professor, Garland wrote recently in the Houston Chronicle that "politicians give voters what they want by enacting capital punishment statues even when they will never be enforced...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 02, 2010 (boomark / email).