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Notable call for an execution moratorium in Texas

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story out of Austin, headlined "Exonerated inmates ask Texas to halt executions," reports on an effort by a notable group of individuals seeking death penalty reform: Twenty wrongly convicted men, freed from death rows across the country, stood in the state Capitol on Friday to ask Texas to acknowledge that innocent people have been ? and will be ? sentenced to death. The exonerated men, members of Witness to Innocence, a Philadelphia-based organization that is holding its annual meeting in Austin, want Texas to create a commission to search for wrongful convictions. And while the commission works, they want a moratorium on executions in the busiest death penalty state ? with 419 executions since 1982 and six more scheduled this month...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 01, 2008 (boomark / email).