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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (15178)	6/1/2001 1:04:50 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Texas Retooling Criminal Justice in Wake of Furor on Death Penalty nytimes.com More contemporaneously, there was this article today. On this matter, it looks like Texas' gain may be the country's loss, or something like that. That W is such a compassionate conservative. While most of the changes cover a broad range of criminal defendants and not solely those charged with capital crimes, many lawmakers were motivated largely by the intense negative attention focused on the state's death penalty during the presidential campaign of Gov. George W. Bush. The flurry in passage of criminal justice legislation, while falling short of what many death penalty opponents had hoped for, is in marked contrast to activity the last time the biennial Legislature met, in 1999, when Mr. Bush's presidential aspirations hung over every vote. Mr. Bush, who during the campaign last year steadfastly defended the Texas capital punishment system, vetoed a bill as governor that was similar to the one passed this year on legal representation for the poor, and also spoke against a failed 1999 bill that would have forbidden execution of the retarded.