11:11 AM Mon, Dec 13, 2010
Michael Landauer/Editor
A new report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty illustrates how doubt is casting its shadow over the justice system in the state. Only eight people were sentenced to death by Texas juries this year, a record low since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Juries opted for life sentences without parole and rejected death sentences in three other cases.
via Is the tide turning against the death penalty? | TEXAS DEATH PENALTY Blog | dallasnews.com.