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"Lawmakers hold committee debate on death penalty," is the title of Christy Gutowski's report in the Chicago Daily Herald.Anthony Mertz has years of future appeals before the condemned man, who has served the longest on Illinois' death row, faces execution for the murder of a college student. But, as an unofficial moratorium remains, often confusing jurors asked to impose the law, some leaders are spurring public discussion with the hope of settling the controversial issue next year after the election. State lawmakers listened Thursday to more than three hours of emotional testimony from both sides of the debate during a house judiciary committee in Chicago. Opponents pushing for an abolition bill argue the death penalty is too arbitrary, costly and just plain morally wrong...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).