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I had to grab this news I found on talkleft.com, since it related to the death penalty AND to my home-state, Wisconsin.
Blogpac had an hour long conference call with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) today. I only made the last half hour... My first question to him had to do with crime legislation. It went something like this:You introduce a lot of bills that you must realize don't have a chance of passing anytime soon - like the bill for a moratorium on the federal death penalty. Which ones do you think can succeed this year, and which will you work hardest for?
Mandatory minimum sentencing is a disaster. Even Justice Rehnquist has said so. With the death penalty, we need to take it one step at a time. It's one brick at a time in a ten to twenty year process. We can begin now by planting seeds. Now is the time for reforms such as DNA [testing for innocence.] The rest will come.
Posted by katherine at 12:59 PM
