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The alt-weekly Jackson Free Press reports, "Dealing Death." The Senate passed a bill that expands the use of the death penalty in the state. Senate Bill 2921 provides that multiple murders in a single incident or a murder committed in conjunction with an attempted murder?a classification that did not exist in Mississippi until the Legislature took up a bill creating the classification this year?shall constitute capital murder, which comes with the possibility of a death sentence. Mitigating circumstances include consideration of the defendant?s age, criminal history, emotional duress and whether or not the defendant is an accomplice whose participation in the crime was minor, among other things. Sen. David Blount could not be reached for comment on his reasons behind authoring the bill, but the impact the law has on the state?s crime statistics is negligible...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).