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"Shurtleff urges activism over death penalty appeals," by Ben Winslow is in the Deseret News.Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is cranking up the phone tree by urging his constituents to call their lawmakers to support a controversial bill that gives the Utah Legislature authority to decide death penalty appeals. "Our current justice system is broken. The death penalty in Utah has become a myth. Death row inmates are winning a war of attrition," Shurtleff wrote Tuesday in his personal blog on the attorney general's Web site. Shurtleff has the backing of some families of murder victims, but has been criticized by the legal community which denounced the proposal as so extreme and radical that it would mar the constitution, violate individual rights to due process and undermine the bedrock principle of the separation of powers among the three branches of government...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).