"Unless I'm missing something here, the key to it is, they should put in a game plan and execute it, with serious restraints and serious reorganization, " said Lenhart, a former five-term sheriff in Anna's Shelby County.
Gov. Deval Patrick and other state authorities should resist allowing the passion and grief of the moment to override the will of the people of Massachusetts not to execute its citizens by turning the case over to the feds.