Perry Signs Sentencing Option Into Law (about time for this

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Life-Without-Parole.html

une 17, 2005
Perry Signs Sentencing Option Into Law
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 11:53 a.m. ET

AUSTIN (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry signed into law Friday a new life-without-parole sentencing option for Texas juries in capital murder cases.

Texas juries have been able to sentence capital murder convicts to death or life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. The new law will strip the possibility of parole.


..more at link..

[dogday]

1. Maybe this will keep them from executing Retarded Persons

[Judi Lynn]

2. Texas Governor Signs Death Penalty Bills

Texas Governor Signs Death Penalty Bills
Friday, June 17, 2005


Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed into law a bill which gives juries in capital murder cases the option of sentencing a defendant to life without the possibility of parole.
“I believe this bill will improve our criminal justice system because it gives jurors a new option to protect the public with the certainty a convicted killer will never roam our streets again,” Perry said.

While the life without parole sentence cannot be applied retroactively to those already convicted of capital murder, it will provide victims assurance that in the future, even if appellate courts overturn death sentences, those convicted of the most heinous murders will never be released from prison. The law applies only to those convicted of capital murder after Sept. 1, 2005.

Perry also approved another death penalty-related bill, House Bill 93, which will change the terminology used on certificates of death for executed inmates.

“Individuals who commit unspeakable crimes against Texas citizens and are put to death under Texas law are not victims,” Perry said. “They are criminals and the final document that bears their name should reflect this fact.”
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http://www.newschannel6.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=8049

[napi21]

3. Well, I guess we'll see if it's the leaders or the citizens of TX

who made the state the Death Penalty capital of the US!