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By Steve Hall

"More Than Reasonable Doubt About Death Penalty," is the title of Terrence Dwyer's OpEd in today's Hartford Courant.  Dwyer, a lawyer, is an assistant professor at Western Connecticut State University and a retired investigator from the New York State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation.There was a time when I would have agreed with Gov. M. Jodi Rell's veto last year of a bill to repeal Connecticut's death penalty. As a former New York State Police investigator whose job was to lock up murderers, I've never had any sympathy for vicious killers or qualms about them suffering. At the same time, we should respond smartly to crime. I cannot conclude, as Gov. Rell did, that the death penalty works. Events just this past year have shown the death penalty could lead to gross miscarriages of justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).