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Alabama Legislation

By Steve Hall

Birmingham News editorial writer Robin DeMonia posts, "Baby steps toward justice on executions?"Before this year?s legislative session becomes a mere blip in the rearview mirror ? for everyone except, maybe, federal prosecutors ? Alabamians should take a moment to reflect on all the important stuff that got done. OK. Maybe you?d rather spend hours stewing over the stuff that didn?t get done. But that?s glass-half-empty thinking. Take a lesson from Esther Brown, the executive director of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty. No, a bill calling for a three-year halt on executions did not pass this year, any more than it did last year, or the year before, or the year before. The bill did not get out of committee. But in the House, at least, it got sent to a subcommittee ? one that conducted two hearings on the bill and whose members seemed genuinely interested in issues such as fairness and accuracy in death sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).