They found Dru Sjodin’s body today. I hope that brings some small measure of comfort to her family. I also suspect that this development will reinvigorate the debate from last fall when our governor suggested that we bring back the death penalty to Minnesota. The judge for whom I once worked told me that he would quit the bench if that ever came to pass. I think a lot of judges would be really ambivalent about imposing death on someone. Minnesota may be an increasingly conservative state, but I’d be shocked if we brought back capital punishment. There’s enough remnants of progressive Scandinavian sensibilities around here to keep our bloodthirstier impulses in check. But I do hope the county attorney’s office can build a strong case and incarcerate the bastard who did this for the rest of his life.
