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Ohio Justice and US Senator from Illinois urging end to state use of death penalty

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in new local stories, a sitting Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and a notable US Senator from the state of Illinois are taking about shutting down the death penalty in states.  The opening paragraphs from each piece provide the basics; consider the start of the Illinois story here appealing in the Chicago Tribune: States should not impose the death penalty because of the difficulty in administering it fairly, although the federal government should retain that authority in cases involving terrorism or treason that endanger many lives, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said. Durbin told The (Springfield) State Journal-Register that he had always supported the death penalty, but has come to believe that "life in prison is penalty enough."  He said that view was influenced partly by those of the late U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).