By William Powell EDITORIALS ARE OPINION, but they should be reasoned arguments based on facts and devoid of inflaming language and exaggeration. Your recent editorial on the death penalty (“Court Wrong On Death Case,” June 28) is lacking under these criteria. I hate to comment on judicial matters because I am not a lawyer — perhaps that is not a bad thing — and this editorial would probably have remained below my response threshold had it not maligned the character of a Supreme Court justice for no apparent reason except perhaps he takes different sides on different issues, and he was the messenger. You blame Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy for the court’s decision striking down Louisiana’s law, which allowed the sentence of the death penalty for perpetrators of child rape. You pull out all the emotional stops by...
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