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"Federal Judge Wants Fewer Capital Cases"

"Federal Judge Wants Fewer Capital Cases": The New York Sun today contains an article that begins, "A 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."

As for the book, the article's final paragraph states, "At yesterday's panel, Judge Block distributed an excerpt from a book he is writing about the death penalty and other issues in the judicial system."

Full post as published by How Appealing on August 12, 2008 (boomark / email).