Give Juries a Choice - Life-without-parole measure hinges on House

DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Opinion: Editorials: "As political earthquakes go, this one packs a powerful jolt: All but one member of the House's crime-fighting committee recently voted to let Texas jurors give capital offenders a sentence of life without parole.

The Criminal Jurisprudence Committee has never previously approved this option, so the vote was groundbreaking indeed."

This seems like a no-brainer to me. But there are just enough pea-brains in Austin right now to probably put a stop to this common sense bill.