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ROBERTS The Tarrant County district attorneys office has asked state officials to have all death sentences pending locally changed to life prison terms. Assistant district attorney Wayne Roberts said a request covering seven defendants now under death sentence in Tarrant County had been reviewed and approved by the state pardon and parole board and passed on to the governor for
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Roberts said abolishment of the death penalty by the U.S. Supreme Court could cause new trials for the defendants unless the death sentences are commuted to life imprisonment by the governor.