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Editorial Roundup

By Steve Hall

Today's Oklahoman carries the editorial, "Reform rollback: Capital crime law facing challenge." One of the most tangible outcomes of the Oklahoma City bombing was reform of the capital punishment appeals system. Survivors of murder victims had been forced to wait 10, 12 or more years from sentencing to execution as the process played out. Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, in his first year in office when the bombing took place in 1995, was a leader in the fight to streamline the appeals process. The goal was to facilitate justice for survivors ? not to rush a convicted murderer to the death chamber. An effort is growing to roll back the reforms. Edmondson, who?s running for governor, is understandably concerned, calling it a "giant step backward...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).