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West Virginia to Hear Death Penalty Bill

By Steve Hall

West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports, "House hearing to consider death penalty."  It's by Tom Miller.  There is video at the link. West Virginia abolished the death penalty nearly 50 years ago but there have been repeated attempts in recent years in the Legislature to revive capital punishment. This year there is a new alternative to that perennial proposal. A public hearing on both bills calling for the death penalty as a possible punishment in first degree murder cases is scheduled in the House Tuesday afternoon.   Boone County Del. Larry Barker is more optimistic about the latest option that would apply only to prison inmates already serving life without parole who are convicted of murder. Barker says this proposal eliminates the fears that innocent people are put to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).