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Does money have no place in any life/death debate?

By Douglas A. Berman

Do readers think a respectable newspaper would boldly assert in an editorial that money has no place in the health care debate?  Or in the debate over the war in Iraq?  I certainly would view such assertions to be misguided, which is why I find foolish this local editorial, headlined "Our view: Money has no place in death penalty debate."  Here are excerpts:Since capital punishment was re-instated in Indiana in 1977, 94 men and women have been sentenced to death. Of those, 19 convicted murderers have been executed. Five more committed suicide, died of natural causes or were killed by other prisoners.  Others saw their sentences commuted through the appeals process.  Fourteen more await their punishment on Death Row, every facet of each and every case weighed heavily prior to sentencing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 21, 2008 (boomark / email).