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"DeKalb, Fulton juries resist giving death penalty," is the report in Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, written by David Simpson and Steve Visser.After the death penalty trial of Brian Nichols, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard plans to seek the ultimate punishment in eight more murder trials. In adjacent DeKalb County, District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming?s office is scheduled to make its opening statement in a death penalty trial Monday. And she is seeking death sentences in two more pending cases. Getting death sentences in those cases could represent the turning of a historical tide. Fulton County juries went eight years without approving a death sentence until this summer. In DeKalb County, the last death sentence was 19 years ago...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).