“This case shows why the death penalty is just an abomination,” Marty Stroud, the former prosecutor, told The Post last month.
“The system failed Mr. Ford, and I was part of the system.” He added: “All it is is state-assisted revenge. We can’t do it. It’s arbitrary, it’s capricious. And I believe that it’s barbaric.”
[How the death penalty continued its slow, steady decline last year]