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Diane Jennings has a series of articles that ran in the Sunday Dallas Morning News, beginning with an introducion, "Texas prosecutors bring different insights into death penalty debate." Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins thinks the spark for the debate "is going to come from someone in a district attorney's seat." For prosecutors, capital punishment is breathtakingly real. They are the men and women who parse mountains of evidence, interview shattered survivors, depose witnesses and decide what charges to file. They are the ones who ask 12 people to sentence someone to death. Some prosecutors, such as David Weeks in Walker County, arrive at their position on the death penalty gradually. Mr. Weeks has come full circle, from a pacifist upbringing to being a vocal proponent of capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).