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Federal Judge Wants Fewer Capital Cases

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That's the title of an article in today's New York Sun.  LINKA sitting federal judge who is working on a book is calling on the Justice Department to ease off in pursuing the federal death penalty in New York City cases. Speaking at an American Bar Association event yesterday, the judge, Frederic Block of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, criticized the government for spending millions of dollars in pursuit of death sentences and ignoring what he said were New Yorkers' views on capital punishment. Washington often seeks death sentences when it has virtually no chance of success, he said, sometimes even over the objections of the local U.S. attorneys tasked with prosecuting the cases. "The problem is, basically, New York has spoken against the death penalty with the exception of a situation involving a cop killing," he said, referring to the single instance in which a federal jury has rendered a death verdict in New York in recent years...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 12, 2008 (boomark / email).