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Maryland Commission Holds Final Public Hearing

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In today's Baltimore Sun, Jennifer McMenamin reports, "Death penalty on trial."As a police chief in New Jersey, James P. Abbott believed in the death penalty. He supported capital punishment as a way of protecting not only the public, but specifically his fellow officers and the correctional guards working in prisons. Then he spent a year serving on a New Jersey commission that studied the death penalty, and he completely reversed his view. "It turned out that what sounded good in theory was actually a complete failure in practice," he told members of Maryland's capital punishment commission yesterday in Annapolis. He noted that he was most influenced by the suffering that victims' families endure through years of appeals and reversals in capital murder cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).