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That's the title of an article in the current edition of the Economist.  It's subtitled, "States plagued by fiscal woes rethink their stance on the death penalty."AN EYE for an eye, or at any rate a death for a death, is the type of justice that most states still embrace. Only 14 of the 50 states have banned capital punishment. But that may change with the recession. As state governments confront huge budget deficits, eight more states have proposed an unusual measure to cut costs: eliminate the death penalty. The states considering abolition, including Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico and New Hampshire, have shifted the debate about capital punishment, at least in part, from morality to cost. Studies show that administering the death penalty is even more expensive than keeping someone in prison for life...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).