Experts vs. Advocates
Today’s Dog Trainer Staff Writer Henry Weinstein illustrated once again the newspaper’s policy of identifying ideological biases of one side but not the other. Take a look at how he describes anti-death penalty activist Franklin Zimring vs. pro-death penalty activist Kent Scheiddiger:
Whichever way Fogel eventually rules on the challenge, an appeal is a virtual certainty, which makes it likely that there will no more executions until 2007 at the earliest, according to UC Berkeley law professor Frank Zimring, an expert on capital punishment.
“I think the smart money at this point would bet against any more executions in California in 2006, and I think it goes beyond that,” Zimring said.
Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a pro-capital punishment group in Sacramento, conceded it was “quite possible” there would be no more executions this year.
So in Timesspeak, anyone who opposes capital punishment is an expert, while any expert in supporting it is an advocate.
Meanwhile, here on the right coast, murder victim Angela Felton finally got the justice that continues to be denied to Terri Winchell.
