Jack Dunphy from the National Review Online has a good piece concerning Brian Nichol’s little shooting spree and the screwups that let it happen in the name of “political correctness”.

I http://jonathanmurray.com/greymatter/archives/00000599.htm pointed all this out the day it happened, but it’s worth reading over again. There was simply no excuse for the horrible failure of security that allowed this to happen.

Dunphy’s closing remarks do give cause for concern, though. How can this man ever get a “fair trial” when there is no doubt of his guilt?

What now of this presumption of innocence for Brian Nichols? Can a jury be found anywhere in Georgia who will not come to his next trial without some preconceived notions about him? I doubt it. And if no impartial jury can be found, what to do with him then?

Finally, there is the matter of the death penalty. We have heard the arguments against the execution of murderers, the primary one being the possibility that those convicted and on Death Row may not in fact be guilty. Fine. Even if we accept the proposition that some of these people are truly innocent, can someone explain to me why this man, Brian Nichols, brazen murderer of four innocent people, does not deserve to die for his crimes?