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An Update From Indiana

By Steve Hall

Today's Fort Wayne News-Sentinel carries the unsigned AP report, "Lawmakers: Abolition of death penalty is unlikely." Indiana state lawmakers say the General Assembly is more likely to try to find ways to help counties pay for death penalty cases than to abolish executions to save money.?There aren?t a majority of votes in the Indiana legislature to impose either a moratorium or a revocation of the death penalty, so that?s not going to happen,? state Sen. John Broden, D-South Bend, a Judiciary Committee member, said Wednesday.Broden said lawmakers need to look at how the state can help counties with the costs.?In an era of declining revenues, we either need to come up with a way to fund future death penalty cases or take a look at other options...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 18, 2010 (boomark / email).