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Two notable pieces in the media

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Two notable editorial / analysis pieces in the press in recent days.  In the first, Dick Dieter appears in the Guardian: Last week New Mexico became the 15th state to abandon capital punishment and the third to do so in the last two years. Upon signing the death-penalty repeal bill, New Mexico’s governor, Bill Richardson, stated: “I do not have confidence in the criminal justice system as it currently operates to be the final arbiter when it comes to who lives and who dies for their crime. If the state is going to undertake this awesome responsibility, the system to impose this ultimate penalty must be perfect and can never be wrong.” New Mexico’s decision follows a clear trend of the death penalty’s being used less and becoming more marginalised ? except in just one area of the country...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).