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Death penalty discussion on Massachusetts AG debate

By Douglas A. Berman

As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney tried and failed (some spectacularly) to bring the death penalty back to the Bay State.  Now, as detailed in this news report headlined "AG candidates debate renewing death penalty: Mattapan killings a hot-button topic," a high-profile murder has prompted yet again discussion of capital punishment in the state: Injecting the Mattapan killings into the state attorney general?s race, Republican candidate James McKenna said yesterday that in light of the gruesome deaths it was time to revisit the death penalty in Massachusetts. "We don?t know the facts here yet," McKenna said during his first debate yesterday with Martha Coakley, the Democratic incumbent. "But this case may put the death penalty back on the table...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).