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'Life Without Parole' Leads to Shrinking Death Penalty Pipeline

Greg Land, Daily Report

December 16, 2015 | 2 Comments

On Dec. 9 at 12:52 a.m., Brian Keith Terrell met his end at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison at Jackson. It was the fifth execution of the year, tying 1987 as the busiest for Georgia's death chamber since capital punishment was reinstated in the 1970s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Despite this relative flurry of executions, the other end of the death penalty process has slowed significantly—in Georgia and the other 30 states that levy the death penalty.

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Steven Frey
Dec 16, 2015

Great work Jerry. Your effort is priceless
Auden L. Grumet, Esq.
Dec 15, 2015

I‘m not sure which is more absurd, irrational, cruel and unusual: the death penalty or life without parole (LWP). Even if for no other reason whatsoever, LWP should be dispensed with so that prisoners will have some modicum of hope on which to hang, which will in turn greatly improve inmate behavior and reduce violence in prison. We should ALWAYS give at least SOME degree of hope - i.e. possibility of release - to ALL prisoners, no matter how heinous one‘s crime...