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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch carries,"The death penalty returns to Missouri" by Pamela Dolan.  According to an article today on Missourinet, state Attorney General Chris Koster has said that now that legal challenges to the state?s ?death penalty structure? have been overcome, we will ?return to regularly scheduled executions.? ?My guess is that for the near future,? said Koster. ?We will see one execution probably every month as these individuals come up in the court system.? Is anyone else troubled by this?  Do you think that there is a moral and ethical problem here?  Or do you believe that the command to love another does not extend to convicted criminals?  Would it make a difference if you could see the people involved as individuals?  Or do their crimes outweigh their humanity? Here is how I first learned about the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).