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New Mexico Watches Harris County Ruling

By Steve Hall

Though State District Judge Kevin Fine's ruling in one pending case is very limited in its scope, it is getting noticed.  Today's Clovis News Journal in New Mexico carries the editorial, "Death penalty comes with too high a price."?It?s safe to assume we execute innocent people. Are you willing to have your brother, your father, your mother be the sacrificial lamb, to be the innocent person executed so that we can have a death penalty so that we can execute those who are deserving of the death penalty??I don?t think society?s mindset is that way now.?Thus stated state District Judge Kevin Fine of Houston on Thursday in declaring the death penalty unconstitutional. His ruling only applies to his court, and it might or might not influence attorneys and judges in current capital cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 09, 2010 (boomark / email).