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Death Penalty: It's Inaccurate, Unfair, Ineffective

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That the title of an OpEd in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution by Georgia State University law prof Anne Emanuel.  LINKGeorgia is home to many firsts. We were the first state to implement electronic voting statewide, the first to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, and the first to grant married women full property rights. Next week, Georgia plans to achieve another, more dubious, first. We may be the first state to execute an inmate after a nationwide six-month de facto moratorium on capital punishment. Across the country, the death penalty has been on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether Kentucky's three-drug lethal injection protocol constituted cruel and unusual punishment. In mid-April, in a 7-2 decision, the court upheld the Kentucky procedure...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).