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Possible Sentencing Change in Georgia

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"DAs may get death penalty alternative," is Bill Rankin's report in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Defense attorneys say it as a matter of fact. And some prosecutors don?t deny it. That is, district attorneys often mount costly death penalty prosecutions when they would be more than satisfied with sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. ?It happens more often than the public would ever imagine,? said John Marshall Law School professor Mike Mears, who has defended dozens of death penalty cases. Under Georgia law, the only ways to lock up a murderer for good is for a DA to seek death, or to get a murder conviction against a defendant who had a prior violent felony conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).