Death Penalty Study Offers Tips to Texas

In a study released Thursday, the Texas Defender Service studied the recommendations of an Illinois commission appointed to study its death penalty after a moratorium in 2000 and compared them with the Texas justice system.

"Texas failed to comply with 80 percent of the best practices identified in Illinois," said Andrea Keilen, deputy director of the Defender Service and one of the study's authors.

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