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Government

Aug. 3, 2007

Oversight on Death Penalty to Shift to AG

LOS ANGELES - At the same time Congress is investigating whether the Justice Department is too driven by politics, the Bush administration is moving to take major decisions about the death penalty out of federal court and put them on the desk of the U.S. attorney general.

By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - At the same time Congress is investigating whether the Justice Department is too driven by politics, the Bush administration is moving to take major decisions about the death penalty out of federal court and put them on the desk of the U.S. attorney general.
      Proposed regulations in the final week of review would tr...

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