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Creative Loafing Atlanta, the city's alt-weekly, has, "The long reach of Brian Nichols and Georgia's deepening death penalty crisis."  It's reported by Scott Freeman.  Here's an excerpt from this must-read article: Like nearly every other death-penalty case in the state, the Joyner murder trial is now at a standstill. And the highly lauded public defender system that was only put in place three years ago is in crisis. "Yes, I'm frustrated," Porter says. "It frustrates me because these cases are too important to become a political football. The families don't understand why this system isn't working and it's hard to explain to them. There's plenty of blame to go around, both in the management of the system and the Legislature...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).