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The New Case Against the Death Penalty

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That's the title of an OpEd by University of Richmond Law prof Corinna Barrett Lain, a former prosecutor.  It appeared in Monday's edition of the Christian Science Monitor.  It's subtitled, "The bittersweet reality is that money, rather than morality, has become the tipping point for abolishing it."Here's an extended excerpt:This year, state budgetary crises have given death penalty opponents their most successful argument yet ? money. Just two states have abolished the death penalty in the past 40 years, New Jersey in 2007 and New Mexico in March. The cost of capital punishment played a key role in both decisions, and is driving current legislative attempts to repeal the death penalty in a number of other states...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).