 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Resistance to death penalty growingQuestions about justice, expense undermining political support for capital punishment.
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Byline: Tim Jones
Apr. 8--About once a week, a convicted murderer is put to death in a state penitentiary, most often in Texas, where all but one of this year's 12 executions have occurred. But around the U.S., capital punishment is under siege. Since the first of the year, individual states have acted on long-festering questions about the equity of capital punishment and made bold moves aimed at repealing the death penalty, slowing the practice or temporarily halting it because of rising costs.
The Nebraska Legislature last month came within one vote of repealing ...
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