Alabama AG Steve Marshall is unfit for public office |
Alabama Attorney General (AG) Steve Marshall—who is running to become a United States senator for Alabama—is unfit to hold public office. And that would be true even for the position of dog-catcher and even if there was a rabid dog rebellion ravaging Alabama—with rabid rapacious dogs rampaging everywhere in the state. He’s too cruel-minded for any position.
Let’s recall first that it was Marshall who, in 2017, spearheaded the charge to get the cynically named “Fair Justice Act” signed into law—legislation which hacksawed fundamental constitutional rights of overwhelmingly indigent death-sentenced defendants; that legislation made it easier for innocent people in Alabama to be convicted and sentenced to death. (While beyond the scope of this essay, on the subject of innocent people on Alabama’s death row, people like Toforest Johnson and Christopher Barbour, it has been AG Marshall and his office steadfastly standing in the way of justice.)
And furthermore, it’s AG Marshall and his office who are pressing for the execution of an intellectually disabled man, Joseph Smith, right now in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
But back to........