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talkleft.com - 2/9/2009
Death Penalty Roundup
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In state death penalty news: • New Mexico's House Judiciary Committee voted 8-to-5 Friday to recommend passage of a bill that would repeal the state's death penalty. Similar House bills met their deaths in the Senate Judiciary Committee in recent years, perhaps because stories like this ...

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The Sideshow — ... , and more states than you'd think are trying to get rid of the death penalty, but the press keeps conveniently screwing up the story.) ...

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