Texas accounts for half of executions in US – but now has doubts over death row

() Even in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes more people than any other by far – it will account for half the prisoners sent to the death chamber in the US this year – is seeing its once rock-solid faith in capital punishment Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Brandon Jones - Nov 15, 2009 - 3:10 PM PST
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by Brandon Jones - Nov. 16, 2009

The author does a good job of familiarizing the audience with the subject of capital punishment; a subject that has bee quite overshadowed for the past few years by developments in other issues. This article, however, fails to back up claims with concrete examples.

I strongly disagree with the death penalty and can only see hope in the fact that Texas is realizing the monster it has become.So what's next Texas, gay marriage? Maybe I'm jumpin' the gun...

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