Media wonders “what if we can no longer obsess about the death penalty”

Perhaps because there have not been any executions to write about for nearly three month because of the Baze lethal injection litigation, the AP today has this somewhat amusing new story headlined, “If Death Penalty Abolished, What Next?”

More than at any time over the past 30 years, the future of capital punishment is in limbo. The Supreme Court will hear arguments next term in a momentous lethal injection case.  While it’s widely expected that executions will resume in some form following that case, the moment gives Americans a chance to contemplate what would change if they stopped for good.

I think it might be more accurate to say that this moment gives members of the media a chance to contemplate what other (more important) issues it would have to obsess over if executions stopped for good.