HoustonChronicle.com - Life without parole becomes sentencing option in Texas

HoustonChronicle.com - Life without parole becomes sentencing option in Texas: "Gov. Rick Perry signed into law today a new life-without-parole sentencing option for Texas juries in capital murder cases.

Texas juries have been able to sentence capital murder convicts to death or life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. The new law, which takes effect Sept. 1, will strip the possibility of parole."