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More on Cost and Geographic Disparity From Associated Press

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"America has cultural divide on death penalty," is the AP report via the International Herald Tribune.Roe Wilson sounds at peace with the fact that she has handled or supervised 91 executions in the 20 years she has overseen capital case appeals. "I've seen what these defendants have done to people," said Wilson, an assistant district attorney in Harris County, Texas -- the busiest death penalty county in America's busiest death penalty state. Several cases in particular come to mind for her, including a man accused of killing his adoptive parents, two sisters and brother-in-law. The victims were suffocated or fatally beaten with a crowbar, then bound with tape and plastic ties and burned. He died proclaiming his innocence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).