The idea here, unlike that of Raleigh rushing to score political points behind the stabbing death of a blonde-haired immigrant on a Charlotte commuter train, is neither to inflame nor incite.

Rather than getting right to work on a budget, state lawmakers opted to kick off their return from a long slumber to focus on crime in a bill named for that passenger, Iryna Zarutska.

But below the bill's headline provisions about bail and pretrial release —Iryna’s Law passed overwhelmingly Tuesday — is a proposal to revive capital punishment after a de facto 19-year moratorium.

Personally, I have no strong feelings about the death penalty either way — provided that the ultimate punishment is meted out equitably and only to the worst of the worst with zero doubt about their guilt, which hasn’t alwa

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