Notes & Asides

Dear Mr. Buckley:

During the recent media hoopla surrounding the State of Washington’s hanging of Westley Allan Dodd for the sex-torture murders of three little boys, Bryant Gumbel interviewed Miss Kim Quach, Seattle defense lawyer for another bad actor on our Death Row, Charles Rodman Campbell (sentenced to death for a particularly egregious throat-slashing triple murder), as to whether execution by hanging constitutes “cruel and unusual” punishment.