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News Coverage of the Montana Hearing

By Steve Hall

"Emotional crowd testifies on SB185," is the title of Allison Maier's report for the Helena Independent Record. A senate bill that would abolish the state death penalty has made its way to the House Judiciary Committee, where it prompted four hours of occasionally emotional testimony and discussion Tuesday morning. Attorneys, religious leaders, victims? families, a former Florida prison warden, a man exonerated of a murder he didn?t commit and state representatives were among the crowd that overflowed from a first-floor hearing room to weigh in on the legislation. Senate Bill 185, sponsored by David Wanzenried, D-Missoula, would remove the death penalty option ? and all references to it ? from Montana code, replacing it with life imprisonment without the opportunity of parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).