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By Steve Hall

"Considering its high cost and other flaws, execution just isn't worth it," by Susan Taylor Martin of the St. Petersburg Times appeared in the Friday edition of the Austin American-Statesman.Does it seem like not so long ago that John Allen Muhammad, the D.C. Sniper, was terrorizing residents of the nation's capital? And does it seem as if the state of Virginia executed him with unusual speed just six years from his sentencing to his death? If it seems that way to you, you're not alone. Although the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay Muhammad's recent execution, three justices noted the relative haste with which he met his state-ordered end. "This case highlights once again the perversity of executing inmates before their appeals process has been fully concluded," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for himself, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 30, 2009 (boomark / email).