Justice Denied

As I wrote in January of this year, the continuing appeals of those on Death Row makes a mockery of justice.  Is it any wonder that killers believe they can get away with murder when they learn of the case of Thomas Francis Edwards?  He died in prison after spending 22 years fighting his execution. 

Edwards was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 killing of a 12-year-old Orange County, California girl.  This case was the subject of a Los Angeles Times November 2008 article.  That aricle quoted state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George, “The leading cause of death on California’s death row is old age.”