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"Montana can't afford the death penalty," is the title of an OpEd in today's Helena Independent Record.  It's by Jim Oppedahl of Helena.The economic crisis across our country is forcing states to look carefully at every public expenditure as they struggle to balance their budgets. Montana?s proposed budget for the next two years has already seen huge reductions. Some of these reductions will be very painful. Others may be long overdue.I was the state court administrator in Montana for a decade. I know how resource-starved our justice system really is. During my tenure, I saw a court system that was underfunded, understaffed and had more work to do than was humanly possible.Yet for all the resource-strain on our courts, there is one program that Montana has never really examined from a financial perspective ? the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).