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By Steve Hall

Today's Silicon Valley Mercury News carries the editorial, "California's death penalty needs substantial reforms."California corrections officials Tuesday proposed new lethal injection procedures designed to allow executions to resume after a four-year moratorium.The state would be better off abolishing the death penalty. It is inconsistently and sometimes unfairly imposed, not to mention exorbitantly expensive. Lifetime incarceration with no possibility of parole is a far better alternative, punishing the guilty and protecting the public at a much lower cost.But if California must continue to mete out capital punishment, it should substantially narrow the list of special circumstances that make a prisoner eligible for execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).