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: StandDown Texas ProjectCraig Watkins in the News
By Steve Hall
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Jennifer Emily writes, "Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins shifts stance on death penalty," for today's Dallas Morning News. Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins,
the state's first elected black district attorney, made national news
after taking office in 2007 when he declared that he personally opposed
the death penalty on moral and religious grounds. Now
mired in a rough re-election race, the 42-year-old Democrat said
he's changed his mind about the use of capital punishment. "I came in with a certain philosophical view. I don't have that anymore," Watkins told The Dallas Morning News
recently. "From a religious standpoint, I think it's an archaic
way of doing justice...continue to full postFull post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).
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