WASHINGTON TIMES / AP: Pennsylvania’s attorney general asked the state Supreme Court this week to nullify Gov. Tom Wolf’s moratorium on executing death row inmates, describing the policy as blatantly unconstitutional and a threat to the justice system.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane filed the request Monday in the case of Hubert Lester Michael Jr., on death row for killing 16-year-old Trista Eng in York County nearly 22 years ago.
“Never before has a member of the executive branch of government sought to unilaterally negate a criminal penalty across an entire class of cases,” the state prosecutor’s office wrote. “Never before has a member of the executive branch affirmatively interfered with the proper administration of the law on the grounds that the judicial branch of government has not functioned in a way that meets a personal standard of satisfaction.” … (more)
EDITOR: We think both Wolf and Kane are doing their jobs. The courts will decide. That is democracy in action.
