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Dallas Morning News Editorial: Free to kill again

By "Persian Cowboy"

This editorial was published on April 17, by the Dallas Morning News.The Supreme Court decision yesterday allowing execution by lethal injection eventually will free the nation's busiest death chamber ? the one in Huntsville, Texas ? to pick up where it left off.It's not a moment to celebrate for those distressed about the quality of justice meted out in the state's courts.The six-month hiatus from state-sponsored killing allowed the Supreme Court to review a challenge to a widely used injection method. A hiatus is just what this newspaper has been calling for, but for different reasons.The disturbing spate of DNA exonerations of Texas inmates is the most powerful argument for freezing Texas' machinery of death. Dallas County has the distinction of having more discredited cases than any county nationwide...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).