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Lawmaker tries to end death penalty in Montana

By MATT VOLZ

Associated Press

HELENA — Montana legislators are taking another look at whether to abolish the death penalty after a judge blocked the state from carrying out executions because it has no access to a drug used in lethal injections.

Clergy, young conservative lawmakers and an exonerated Arizona death-row inmate urged the House Judiciary Committee Monday to pass a bill abolishing the death penalty. The maximum penalty would become life in prison without parole under the measure by Rep. Adam Hertz, R-Missoula.

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