A Question of Rehabilitation
In three days, James Allridge (in Texes) is scheduled to be executed. Jordan Smith writes in the Austin Chronicle about Allridge's plea for life.
Allridge's bid for a life sentence is not based on a claim of innocence or on a lack of due process. Instead, his plea for commutation is based on his apparent rehabilitation while in prison and his quest for redemption – two factors that Allridge's supporters, criminal-justice reformers, and policymakers say should play a key role in Texas' clemency decisions, especially since the state's capital statute emphasizes, as it did in Allridge's sentence to death row, the "future dangerousness" of the accused.
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