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By Steve Hall

Utah's Ogden Standard-Examiner profiles attorney Randy Richards in, "Ogden attorney fights against death penalty."  It's written by Tim Gurrister. Randy Richards describes his work as anti-homicide in bucking capital punishment. "I see it as preventing the state from doing that which it condemns," he said."If murder's wrong, murder's wrong, even if it's a judge or jury doing it. By having the death penalty, we're letting our baser emotions rule our lives."State-sanctioned execution, however sanitized as the will of the people, as still homicide, he said.Richards is the only defense attorney in the state handling two death penalty defenses, said Mark Field, who keeps track of such things as the capital attorney for the state Administrative Office of the Courts...continue to full post

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