1.   A state lawmaker wants death-row inmates to have a chance to redeem themselves and help their fellow man.

2.   At the same time, the report urges state lawmakers to require clearer performance and assessment plans from all charter schools.

3.   The brief ceremony was the result of a compromise reached by state lawmakers in May.

4.   Also Wednesday, Bush received letters from Republican state lawmakers in Massachusetts who want him to run.

5.   Although he spent three decades as a farm state lawmaker, Dole still can joke about agriculture.

6.   Among law-enforcement officials, criminal-justice experts and even state lawmakers, there is by now a sense that this growth is ill-advised.

7.   Although the bill to require newborn screening was introduced in June, it was postponed as state lawmakers debated the death penalty last week.

8.   And as state lawmakers increasingly see gambling as a cash cow, the gaming industry is skyrocketing.

9.   And each lost to state lawmakers who had the backing of party leadership.

10.   And New Jersey state lawmakers are moving to make the surgical silencing of these animals illegal.