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"Vote clears path to life without parole," by Bill Rankin, Aaron Gould Sheinin is in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Georgia prosecutors will have more leeway to put killers behind bars until they die under legislation given final approval Wednesday by the state House. The House voted 164-0 for the bill, which would allow DAs to seek a sentence of life in prison without parole without having to seek the death penalty to get it. ?The families of the victims need closure,? said Rep. Rich Golick (R-Smyrna), the chairman of the House Judiciary. ?And, of course, the question they ask the prosecutor is: Is that individual ever going to get out?? The bill helps prosecutors help those families, he said...continue to full post

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