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Sunday's Greensboro News & Record contained the editorial, "A penalty of the past."Gov. Mike Easley raised a pointed question about crime and punishment: "When are we going to hold some of these people accountable and get some of these executions going again? That's what I want to know," the governor said to N&R reporter Mark Binker in an interview last month. It won't happen on Easley's watch. His term expires Saturday. Whether the state's execution chamber gets busy again during the tenure of the next governor, Bev Perdue, remains to be seen. She also supports capital punishment, although probably not as impatiently as Easley. If she and legislative leaders are wise, however, they'll find a way out of North Carolina's death-penalty dilemma...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).