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Letter to Obama from Sherrie Stone

Dear Barak,I am a republican, but have been very impressed with you.I would like to know why the Presidential Candidates are not speaking up about the death penalty. The United States Supreme Court will be making a historic ruling in a month or so, executions are on hold and we have a very flawed system.Why is this not a topic?Do you know in Alabama, the State of Alabama is trying to execute a man whom has never had his first habeas corpus or rule 32 appeals heard. There is also DNA evidence that could prove his innocence and the Governor will not allow it. The USSC even denied him DNA testing Nov. 2007. It is because of a law signed into action by President Clinton in 1996, called the AEDPA Act. It puts a one year time limit on death row inmates to file their post-conviction appeals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).