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An Update From Pennsylvania

By Steve Hall

Today's Lehigh Valley Express-Times carries the editorial, "Send Pennsylvania's death penalty to the gallows." Just before he left office, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell sent the Legislature a letter, complaining that the state?s death row had become a long-term public housing program. Either shorten the appeals process or get rid of the death penalty, Rendell said. We agree. With the latter proposition, that is. It?s time for Pennsylvania to take a meaningless capital punishment option off the books. The state has executed all of three people since it reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Everyone else has won a lesser sentence on appeal, died of natural causes, been exonerated, or just figured out that you can go on endlessly with the grim reaper at the door and a court-appointed lawyer on the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).