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"Senators vote for Ala. death penalty moratorium," is the AP report from Wednesday afternoon.For the third time in five years, a state Senate committee has voted in favor of a moratorium on executions in Alabama, but the proposal again faces an uncertain future. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-1 Wednesday for a bill by Democratic Sen. Hank Sanders of Selma that would institute a three-year moratorium. During the moratorium, the state would make sure the death penalty is being administered fairly and impartially. Sanders' bill now goes to the Senate, where similar legislation approved by the committee failed in 2005 and 2006. Sanders also sponsored moratorium legislation in 2007 and 2008, but those bills died in the Judiciary Committee without coming to a vote...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).