As you probably already know, they executed Dale Leo Bishop in Mississippi last night. I had urged readers to write  to Governor Haley Barbour and respectfully request that he commute Bishop’s death sentence to life imprisonment, since he did not actually murder anyone, although he did take part in a terrible crime. Barbour refused — even though he had just released a man who had murdered his wife in the street: blew her head off with a shotgun. But that actual murderer had been a servant in Barbour’s mansion; wiping the dribble off Barbour’s jowls is obviously a qualification for

Dale Leo Bishop is scheduled to be killed tomorrow by the state of Mississippi — despite the fact that he did not kill anyone, although he assisted an attack that turned into a murder. The actual murderer, oddly enough, was sentenced to life in prison; but Bishop, who is mentally ill, was sentenced to die. [For more, see previous post on this subject.]

All of his judicial appeals have been exhausted now. Outside a highly unlikely intervention by the U.S. Supreme Court, the only hope Bishop has is a