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The personal realities and opportunity costs of capital cases

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to How Appealing, I saw this interesting piece in the Casper Star-Tribune about some personal realities that come from working on a capital case.  Here are excerpts:Intensely stressful.  Overwhelming.  Simply miserable.  The attorneys who've litigated death penalty cases in Wyoming don't mince words when describing the experience.  Fighting for the ultimate punishment, or fighting to prevent it, is an emotionally taxing business that sticks with the participants long after the outcome has been decided.... Last Monday, prosecutors in Natrona County disclosed their plans to seek the death penalty against Donald Rolle, a Casper man accused of murdering Jennifer Randel, a woman he'd dated and been convicted of assaulting in the past...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).