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Should there be a nationwide freeze of capital punishment? One of the country’s leading organizations of lawyers thinks so. Jesse Russell reports:

By Jesse Russell

Opponents of the death penalty welcomed a report on Sunday as the American Bar Association called for a nationwide freeze to executions. The ABA issued a report detailing many problems with the practice of capital punishment. Those problems include issues with DNA evidence collection, misidentification by witnesses, and racial disparity. While the organization has not taken a specific position on capital punishment, it has said that before states that still practice the death penalty take another life they should first review procedures.