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Mexico, as noted earlier, is rethinking its 2005 decision to abolish the death penalty. A poll reported today by Canadian pollster Angus Reid Global Monitor found that 68% of Mexicans support the death penalty for rape, 64% for homicide, and 60% for kidnapping. Earlier this month a proposal to restore capital punishment was debated in the Mexican Congress. The Gruesome Murder case of habitual predator Joseph Edward Duncan III, was before a federal sentencing jury in Boise, Idaho yesterday. A story by AP writer Rebecca Boone reports that jurors watched a 2005 police interview of 8-year-old Shasta Groene describing how Duncan kidnapped, raped, and tortured her and 9-year-old brother Dylan, after killing their older brother and mother and the mother's fiance...continue to full post

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