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More Coverage of ALI Death Penalty Position

By Steve Hall

"In Compromise, ALI Dumps Capital Punishment Project," is the title of Ashby Jones' post at the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog.Is it just us, or does it seem like we?re in the throes of an upheaval in the administration of the death penalty? Just last month, we blogged the news out of the Death Penalty Information Center that, while executions were up slightly in ?09, juries appear increasingly less willing to impose them. In the meantime, states continue to abandon the practice (New Mexico being the latest), and hardly a month passes without word of another death-row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence. The latest move on this front comes to us via the NYT?s Adam Liptak, who writes today on the American Law Institute. Last fall, ALI, ?which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago,? pronounced its efforts a failure and walked away from its death-penalty work...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).