*
In March, Illinois Dropped The Death Penalty: *The/New York
Times/applauded
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/opinion/19sat3.html?scp=7&sq=Illinois%20+%20death%20penalty&st=cse>the
decision.
When Illinois joined New Jersey and New Mexico this month as the
third state to abolish the death penalty in the last four years, it
made the choice compelled by a long record of judicial abuses, false
convictions and other fundamental problems. That should be enough
for all states to abandon the penalty once and for all.
And Canadian Dimitry Smirnovnoticed
<http://www.suntimes.com/news/4828757-418/man-accused-of-stalking-woman-before-killing-her-in-oak-brook.html>.
A 20-year-old Canadian man methodically stalked and tracked a
Westmont woman before killing her Wednesday night in Oak Brook ---
even stopping to reload his gun and continue shooting during the attack.
DuPage County Judge Michael Wolfe denied bail Thursday for Dmitry
Smirnov of Surrey, British Columbia, who is charged with the
first-degree murder of Jitka Vesel, 36.
. . .
[DuPage County State's Attorney Robert] Berlin said Smirnov had done
research on the Internet to determine if Illinois had the death
penalty, deciding to go through with Vesel's murder when he
discovered it does not.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to ask Jitka Vesel her opinion of the
Illinois decision.
(Has this story made the/Times/? Not so far.)
- 8:27 AM, 15 April 2011 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/April2011_2.html#jrm9791>
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