Bobert, I agree totally with the way you are seeing this. Had he been a Democrat, the Republicans would be calling for his head on the Sunday morning talk shows.

It is also pathetic that rather than talk about the reasons why Ryan did what he did, the right wing media is focusing instead on the easy sleezy story: the victims' families. Not only are they not covering the opinions of victims' families who are opposed to the death penalty, or even just the death penalty in their family's case, but they aren't discussing what should be of major concern to everyone: that there are still murderers out there who have escaped justice for their heinous crimes.

The issue is the way that innocently people get wrongly convicted, and the guilty parties escape prosecution for their crimes. Ryan is saying that is precisely what needs to be addressed in our nation's criminal justice system, and of course he is right. I believe the time has come to review every death row case in the country, and the decision be made, at the very least, that no one can be put to death without the strongest DNA evidence. Wherever there is no clear cut DNA evidence, there should be no execution, and the sentences should be commuted, at the very least, and retrials be granted in many cases where there is strong evidence that the inmate was wrongly convicted.