Death penalty moratorium supporters try again to block executions

[Judi Lynn]

Death penalty moratorium supporters try again to block executions
By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer

Sunday, April 2, 2006

(04-02) 11:06 PDT SACRAMENTO, (AP) --

Death penalty moratorium supporters will try again this week to put a hold on executions in California, the state with the largest death row in the country.

A bill by Assembly members Sally Lieber, D-Santa Clara, and Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, would bar executions at least until 2008 — after a state commission has reported on ways to improve the accuracy of jury verdicts in criminal cases.
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The Public Safety Committee approved a similar bill by Koretz and Lieber in January, but that measure died in the Assembly Appropriations Committee without coming up for a vote.

Kortez said he didn't want to ask fellow Democrats to run the risk of voting for a bill that could be used as campaign fodder by Republicans if he wasn't sure it would pass.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/04/02/politics/p110607D22.DTL

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. I've never been able to understand...

...How killing people who kill people proves that killing people is wrong. :shrug: