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Harris Sends Nobody to Death Row

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That's the title of Rick Casey's latest Houston Chronicle column.  LINK  Here's an extended excerpt:First I learn that Houston's air is getting cleaner. Now I learn that we haven't sentenced a single scumbag murderer to death this entire year. This is not the city I signed up for. In 1999, Houston displaced Los Angeles as the smoggiest city in the nation. This year we set a record low with only 16 days exceeding federal standards for ground-level ozone, smog's main ingredient. In 2003, the year I moved here, Houston sent nine murderers to death row. That was 35 percent of the state's death sentences that year, an amount that is more than twice our 16.5 percent share of the state's population. In 2004, we did even better, accounting for fully half of the 20 Texans who landed on death row...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).