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It's Time for Capital Punishment to Become Texas History

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in yesterday's Houston Chronicle.  It also carried the heading, "The death penalty."  The Chronicle becomes the third major Texas newspaper to editorially endorse repealing the state's death penalty. The death penalty in Texas is fraught with demonstrable error, and the people of the state seem more willing to deal with that fact than their leaders. Events of the past year have convinced us that defendants have been executed on the basis of invalid evidence. They may or may not have been guilty, but the fact that we have convicted people based on faulty evidence leads inexorably to a horrible likelihood ? that we have executed innocent people. The high number of death row prisoners eventually exonerated makes a strong case that other innocent but less fortunate prisoners have been wrongfully put to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).