Kevin Richert of the Idaho Statesman complains that Gov. Otter’s proposed 2009-2010 budget creates three new full-time attorneys in the public defender’s office, the agency responsible to defend death-row inmates.
He claims this has turned capital punishment into a “growth industry” in Idaho, even though Idaho has executed only one criminal in the last 50 plus years.
But there is a connection between an increase in public defenders and a decrease in executions, and the connection is out-of-control judicial activism.
Taxpayer-funded public defenders are nowhere required in the Constitution, and have been imposed on a compliant and meek public only by activist judges/
Bryan Fischer
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Question: Do you agree as Bryan Fischer does that judicial activism has created a “growth industry of capital punishment”?