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The Tuscaloosa News carries an editorial, "State should settle questions before the next execution."  It concerns legislation sponsored by Alabama State Senator Hank Sanders.The effectiveness of the three-drug cocktail used in the lethal injection process and the state's failure to require DNA testing in capital cases are not the only death penalty issues in Alabama. One of the most significant is the state's unique law that allows judges to override a jury recommendation in a capital case, imposing the death sentence instead of life without parole. Another is Alabama's failure to guarantee legal representation for post-conviction proceedings for inmates on Death Row. Moreover, although the U.S. Supreme Court has banned executing people with mental retardation, Alabama never has developed a standard for use in such cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).