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Pennsylvania Reaction to Gov. Rendell's Call for Review

By Steve Hall

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer carries the editorial, "Life is the better choice." Ed Rendell was half right when he talked about the problems surrounding the death penalty in his waning days as governor. Rendell called on the General Assembly to either streamline the process or do away with capital punishment. Eliminating the death penalty is the part Rendell got right. Rendell's point that the lengthy appeals process effectively renders death row meaningless is understood. He signed 119 death warrants in his eight years as governor, but no one was executed. Rendell's suggestion of swifter executions, however, is not the answer. In fact, such a move is in direct conflict with the main problem concerning capital punishment: A person can be put to death for a crime he did not commit...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).