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By Steve Hall

In addition to Florida, newspapers in Connecticut and Utah also have capital punishment editorials.Today's Connecticut Law Tribune carries, "A Death Penalty Proposal."Earlier this year, the state legislature voted to prospectively eliminate the death penalty. Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell?s veto, however, coupled with a less-than-veto-proof majority in the Democratic-controlled legislature, killed the bill for at least until the upcoming session, which begins in February.In this 2009 iteration, the legislative and executive branches squared off on a do-or-not-do debate. A better approach might have been to retain the penalty, but only under very restricted conditions and with some restraint on the appellate process. And:One proposal would be to change the conviction standard in capital cases so that the prosecution would bear a heavy burden of showing how combinations of eyewitness accounts, confessions, and forensic evidence could leave no doubt that a given individual had committed a crime for which execution was an allowable punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).