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In Today's Philadephia Inquirer

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There is a slew of state legislative news today.  Let's begin with an editorial from today's paper, "Death Penalty: State must end it now."Pennsylvania, with the nation's fourth-largest death row, has as much reason - if not more - to follow the moral and practical example set last week by New Mexico in repealing its death penalty. As Gov. Corzine did in 2007, Bill Richardson of New Mexico on Wednesday became the second governor to decide he would no longer "tinker with the machinery of death" - as the late Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun eloquently described the flawed U.S. system of capital punishment. There is no rush among the 35 remaining death-penalty states to join New Jersey and New Mexico, the only two to ban executions since they were reinstated in 1976...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).