The Lethal Injection issue is discussed in this Los Angeles Times editorial. While the paper acknowledges that it opposes capital punishment, it also points out that the legal dispute over lethal injection is a sideshow which will not end executions and may ultimately make things more difficult for abolitionists.

The Death Penalty is defended in an OpEd piece in the Atlanta Journal Constitution by Newton County District Attorney Ken Wynne. He gives a brief history of Georgia's law from Furman to the present and discusses some of the claims made by abolitionists.

The Retrial of a Scotsman for the 1986 arson/murder of a 2-year-old girl is drawing international attention according to this editorial in the Toledo Blade. Kenneth Richey, who has criminal convictions on both sides of the Atlantic, was convicted and sentenced to death for setting the fire to his ex-girlfriend's apartment which killed little Cynthia Collins. Last August the Sixth Circuit overturned his conviction finding ineffective assistance of counsel. The state has decided to retry the case.