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Nevada Legislative Committee Approves Study Commission

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"Death penalty study debated," is Brendan Riley's AP report from Carson City via the San Francisco Chronicle.Death penalty opponents joined with advocates of more funding for schools and other services in arguing Tuesday for a plan to determine how costly it is to continue the death penalty in Nevada. Under AB190, reviewed by the Senate Legislative Operations and Elections Committee, the study would be done by the lawmakers' staff and completed in time for the 2011 session. The bill, sponsored chiefly by Assemblyman Bernie Anderson, D-Sparks, was approved earlier on a 30-12 state Assembly vote. Anderson said various studies around the country have shown that costs of dealing with capital cases are "alarmingly high," and the study would determine whether it makes "good fiscal sense to continue the death penalty system in Nevada...continue to full post

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