1.   Atwood noted that Perry, unlike Bush, has signaled that he could support extending the option of life without parole to capital murderers.

2.   During that time, he has defended two accused capital murderers.

3.   Jurors and judges will give more thorough consideration to claims of mental retardation by capital murderers.

4.   Sixty-seven percent supported giving juries the option to sentence capital murderers to life without parole, a measure that soon will be put before the Texas Legislature.

5.   The Senate Wednesday tentatively approved a bill that would add life in prison without the possibility of parole to the options jurors have in sentencing capital murderers.

6.   Under the proposal, families of slain victims would have the option of witnessing the injection of lethal chemicals into the bodies of convicted capital murderers.

7.   We prosecute capital murderers in Texas, and we have no qualms about putting them to death when jurors mandate the ultimate punishment.

8.   Why worry that a capital murderer gets competent attorneys who raise all the objections, bring in all the experts, grill all the witnesses?

9.   A bill giving juries the option of sentencing capital murderers to life in prison without parole was voted down in the House.