1.   There are good reasons for continuing to support the moratorium.

2.   At the start of the campaign this year, he said he supported a moratorium on the death penalty, pointing to evidence that innocent people were being executed.

3.   Businesses also supported a moratorium on new taxes on goods bought or sold over the Internet, which the Senate approved Thursday.

4.   David Urbanek, a spokesman for Gov. George Ryan, said the governor did not support a moratorium on executions.

5.   During the presidential campaign, George W. Bush supported a moratorium, long in place, blocking new leasing of fields in parts of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

6.   Grannis drafted the testimony at the request of the Center for Insurance Research, which supports the moratorium.

7.   People from coastal communities also support the moratorium.

8.   Still, in Texas and elsewhere, many lawmakers who supported testing moratoriums insist they want to use the time to set up more palatable testing programs.

9.   They call for more discipline in schools and for an end to boycotts of utility payments, and many would even support a moratorium on strikes.

10.   Vance has pledged to support a moratorium on any death penalty cases in which DNA technology could possibly prove innocence or confirm guilt.