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Alabama Senate Supports Executions

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That's the title of Kristen Bost's article in the Auburn Plainsman.  LINKFor the third time in five years, an Alabama Senate committee voted in favor of a three-year moratorium on executions. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted six to one last Wednesday for the bill proposed by Senator Hank Sanders, D-Selma. The proposed hiatus in executions has come as a response to statistics regarding the state?s possibly racist sentencing.According to Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, more blacks have been executed than whites since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and the black population on Alabama?s death row is approximately 49 percent compared to a total black population of about 26 percent.?Historically, capital punishment in the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).