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Today's Hartford Courant carries the editorial, "Do away with death penalty."A legislative committee has taken a brave step toward abolishing Connecticut's death penalty, a law that is all but unworkable, not to mention expensive, unfair and risky.By unfair, we refer to the lopsided application of such laws nationwide. Minorities make up more than half of death row inmates. By risky, we mean that 130 death row inmates have been exonerated around the nation in the past decade. There is evidence that others who were executed might have been innocent. By expensive, we refer to the cost of the endless appeals that make Connecticut's law practically unworkable. And:Changes in the law approved by the Judiciary Committee and headed for a House vote would bring swifter closure for victims by consigning those convicted of capital crimes to life in prison without parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).