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: StandDown Texas Project

Death Sentences Really Just Life Terms

By Steve Hall

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That's not a Texas headline -- it's the title of Riley Yates's report from the Allentown Morning Call of Pennsylvania.  It appeared in the Sunday edition.  It's subtitled, "Records show executions in state are few, far between as legal hurdles mount."On June 26, 1933, Northampton County farmer John Kurutz was strapped into an electric chair at Rockview State Prison and executed for killing his 16-year-old stepson because he wouldn't do his chores. As he walked from his cell to the death chamber, Kurutz repeated prayers uttered by a prison chaplain. The 47-year-old Lower Saucon Township man had nothing more to add ''before his life was snuffed out in payment for another,'' as a newspaper account from the time put it...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).

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