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Mississippi Death Penalty Under Scrutiny

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That's the title of an AP report written by Jack Elliott, via today's Memphis Commercial Appeal.  The subtitle is, "Case before Court of Appeals challenges law's constitutionality."Gerald James Holland's attack on the constitutionality of Mississippi's death penalty law appears to be flying under the radar.The attorney general's office is confident that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will find Holland was legally re-sentenced to death under Mississippi law. But Holland's lawyers believe the New Orleans appeals court will find fault with a decades-old law that allows a jury unfamiliar with the details of a crime -- as they claim occurred during Holland's re-sentencing -- to decide a death sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).