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Law Enforcement and the Death Penalty

By Steve Hall

"Police officials argue death penalty doesn't make us safer," is the title of a Silicon Valley Mercury News OpED written by James Abbott, Antonio Cluny, Bob Denmark and Ronald Hampton.  It appeared in the Sunday edition. Abbott is the police chief of West Orange, N.J., and served on the state's Death Penalty Study Commission. Cluny is the senior attorney general and public prosecutor in Portugal.  Denmark is a 30-year veteran of the British police force, and Hampton is the executive director of the National Black Police Association International Leadership Institute. Over the past decade, executions have dropped by more than 50 percent and the number of death sentences has steadily declined, according to the Death Penalty Information Center...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).