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Texas Monthly to Call for Moratorium in Texas

By Steve Hall

That news from Jason Embry in his First Reading blog at the Austin American-Statesman. this morning. Texas Monthly calls for a moratorium on the death penalty in its January issue, which will hit newsstands Thursday. From the piece by Michael Hall: ?The flaws in our death penalty system have become too obvious to ignore any longer. Five times in the past seven years we?ve learned about a person wrongly convicted and taken off death row or a person convicted on bogus forensic science?and executed. It?s clear: Until the day comes when we are able to guarantee that our system will never put innocent men and women to death, we can?t continue to use a form of punishment that is irreversible. It?s time for Texas to put a moratorium on capital punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2010 (boomark / email).