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Gubernatorial candidate Farouk Shami talks about the death penalty on televised debate

By KGNS News

Story Created: Feb 9, 2010

Story Updated: Feb 10, 2010

Houston hair care businessman Farouk Shami says he'd support a moratorium on the death penalty if elected governor.
In a televised debate Monday evening with democratic challenger
Bill White, Shami said, "a lot of innocent people" have been killed.
Texas leads the nation in carrying out capital punishment, and
Shami says he wouldn't support executions unless he was "110
percent sure" of the guilt of the convicted person.
White, when asked the same question said he supported the death
penalty but didn't back a moratorium, saying it would be unfair to
juries and victims where there was no question of guilt.

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