Saturday, April 14, 2007
Dallas Morning News drops support of death penalty
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DALLAS — The Dallas Morning News is reversing its support of the death penalty on Sunday, reports E&P.
Citing cases where inmates have been jailed -- and one put to death -- for crimes they didn't commit, the paper's editorial board says that there's too high a risk of error.
E&P also reports that all but one of the 13 executions this year in the country have been in Texas.
Posted by T.G.
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terryorze Anonymous
I came to the same conclusion 15 years ago when I found out that in Illinois 10% of the people already killed for which there was DNA evidence available turned out to be innocent. Apparently 10% is what jurors interpret as a reasonable doubt. I still support the death penalty, but the standard of proof needs to be beyond a shadow of a doubt.
1 year, 6 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Alan Cohen Staff
More on the Texas death penalty debate from Grits this morning: http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/...
1 year, 6 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
edsops Anonymous
The RSS feed for this story ( http://www.pegasusnews.com/rss/headli... ) contains this insensitive description: "Next, they'll be recommending we all wear flowers in our hair."
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Mike Orren Staff
Edsops, I appreciate the comment. We're making some changes to our RSS as a result of recent comments like this:
http://www.pegasusnews.com/blogs/pega...
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ch0 Anonymous
What we need is MORE death penalties administered. All murderers, rapists, and molesters should be executed immediately following conviction. No parole, no life in prison, no second chances. Look at how many re-offend.
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