Gov. Perdue meets with victims’ families as she ponders whether or not to veto the revamped Racial Justice Act. Something tells me she already has her mind made up.

Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill cuts to the chase — the RJA would “will tie up the courts for decades,” yet another “kick in the stomach to families of murder victims around the state.”

O’Neill’s predecessor Tom Keith expressed the same sentiment a couple of years ago, adding if legislators “do away with [the death penalty], fine; if they keep it, fine. But just tell us what the rules are ….”

Amen. This half-hearted end run around the death penalty is doing more harm than good. But that’s what politicians do best.