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Justice delayed

The high school mock trial competition is a good way to show students what real trials are like. Now, thanks to Gov. Tom Wolf’s moratorium on capital punishment, all prior murder trials are nothing more than mock trials.

Police officers, detectives and district attorneys spend many hours making sure all the facts are presented at trial. Then a jury hears all the evidence — they put their hearts and souls into their verdict. The sentence is given.

Then, one man — Gov. Wolf — decides to disregard all of that. He is worried about the murderers’ rights. What about the rights of innocent victims and their families?

I live without my husband, my children live without their father and my grandchildren will never know their wonderful grandfather.

Many are touched when an innocent life is taken. Shame on Gov. Wolf.

The writer’s husband, John Kroll, was killed March 1, 2000, during a shooting spree in Wilkinsburg. His killer, Ronald Taylor, received a death sentence Jan. 11, 2002. Since then, Taylor, now 54, has been on Pennsylvania’s death row in the State Correctional Institution at Graterford.

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