AUSTIN - For the second time in as many days, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday expanded the scope of the Legislature's special session, adding to the agenda an issue sure to ignite fiery fights in the House and Senate - abortion. In his directive, Perry also upped the special session ante by adding to the call a proposal to establish a mandatory sentence of life with parole for capital murders committed by 17-year-olds. The measure would allow Texas to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that did away with the death penalty and life without parole for 17-year-olds, effectively eliminating the state's options to punish suspects of that age convicted of capital murder. Perry's move on abortion -...
↧
