Life After Death

[Margaret]

pms <laflame at mindspring.com> wrote:
>Question to lawyyers:  What about a suit challenging the death penalty on
>the grounds of the damage the threat of it has done to the lives of Porters
>family?
>
>The poor man was doing better in jail.

Hell, what about a suit for wrongful conviction?
Surely there's a public obligation to make him as whole
as possible, isn't there?   

It's not clear to me that he would have been much
better off now had there been no death row.   It's
rotting in prison for a crime he didn't commit that did
the poor guy in.