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A Death Penalty Record

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Los Angeles Times.  It's subtitled, "L.A. County led the U.S. in capital sentences in 2009. Prosecutors are being overzealous and inhumane."Harris County, Texas, used to be known as the death penalty capital of the United States, the focus of national and global outrage over an outdated, costly and immoral form of criminal justice. But things have changed: Harris County now has a sentencing record that looks like Denmark's, and the hanging judges (or rather, prosecutors) seem to have relocated to liberal Los Angeles.A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union shows that Los Angeles County sent more people to death row last year than any other county in the U...continue to full post

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