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VA & ID: volunteering for DP a "fatal attraction"

From the Charlottesville Daily Progress, June 21:Death request raises ethical, legal questionsSomewhere in the Charlottesville Office of the Commonwealth?s Attorney sits a plea agreement that could lead to the execution of a city man accused of killing an 11-year-old boy. One of Waverly ?Eddie? Whitlock?s defense attorney has said in court that his client wants to sign the agreement, which would request the death penalty as punishment for a capital murder conviction... The act of volunteering for the death penalty, although uncommon, has raised legal, ethical and moral issues for others involved in capital cases... Following a client?s wishes can be more difficult if he wants to die.August ?Gus? Cahill, the chief deputy of the Ada County Public Defender?s Office in Idaho, represented death penalty volunteer Keith Eugene Wells in the early 1990s...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).