Yesterday, the Supreme Court took another step toward making drug sentences fair, and New Jerseys senate endorsed the only logical way to make the death penalty fair — it voted to abolish capital punishment in the Garden State. These two big, meaty legal stories are not nearly as disconnected as you might think. When deciding Kimbrough v. United States, seven Supreme Court justices agreed that Congress had been unresponsive to the executive branchs requests to fix the discrepancy between crack cocaine sentences and ones for powder cocaine. And when New Jerseys state legislators voted to abolish the death penalty, they acknowledged that Congress, the White House and the courts had been unresponsive to requests from the nations legal community to make capital punishment quicker and more thorough. In both cases, fed-up men and women decided to push through the political inertia to begin to fix some of the long-broken parts
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