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Utah Governor Wants Additional Appeal Limits

By Steve Hall

The Salt Lake Tribune reports, "Guv wants streamlined death penalty appeals."  It's written by Robert Gehrke. After the state executed convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner, Gov. Gary Herbert said he wants to see the appeals process for condemned prisoners streamlined, so executions can be carried out more expeditiously. ?Twenty-five years is just too long. There ought to be a process that?s more timely,? Herbert said Thursday during his monthly news conference on KUED. ?It?s just too long and it becomes too much of a circus atmosphere. ? And it doesn?t serve the families very well.? Gardner was executed by firing squad June 18 for the 1985 slaying of attorney Michael Burdell during an attempted courthouse escape...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).