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"Life-without-parole bill imperiled by addition," is Bill Rankin and Aaron Gould Sheinin's report in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.A move to allow a death sentence without a unanimous jury sidetracked legislation Tuesday that was the state district attorneys? top priority this session. The House was scheduled to vote for final passage of Senate Bill 13, which would allow DAs to seek a sentence of life without parole without having to seek the death penalty to get it. But House Rules Committee Chairman Earl Ehrhart (R-Powder Springs) pulled the bill off the House floor just before the vote so it could be amended with nonunanimous jury legislation. The amendment would allow a judge to impose a capital sentence if a jury deadlocked during the sentencing phase, with at least a 9-3 vote in favor of death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).