2 former Alabama governors from opposite sides of the political aisle express doubts over executions – Winnipeg Free Press
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Don Siegelman and Robert Bentley co-write opinion piece calling state’s death penalty laws ‘legally and morally troubling’
Two former Alabama governors, from opposite sides of the political aisle, wrote in an opinion piece that they are now troubled by the state's death penalty system and would commute the sentences of inmates sentenced by judicial override or divided juries.
Writing in the Washington Post, the former governors said: “We missed our chance to confront the death penalty and have lived to regret it, but it is not too late for today’s elected officials to do the morally right thing.”
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