Justice delayed, and delayed, in the quadruple Idaho student murders case

Heavy equipment is used, on Dec. 28, 2023, to demolish the house where University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were fatally stabbed in November 2022. Even the murder house is gone. The three-story house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, has been demolished.

But why the apparently nonstop succession of delays? One explanation is that this is a death penalty case, and the defense labors with the knowledge that their client’s life is on the line. The defense lawyers need to do whatever is necessary, regardless of how long it takes. In capital cases,To my mind, though, another logic is largely setting the plodding pace in Idaho.

And here’s the thing: The large, ineluctable past cannot be simply be bound up tight with the iron bands of a gag order. Or bulldozed away. Without the satisfying knowledge that a trial — and a verdict — can bring, without the exculpation of reason or faith or purpose that understanding can offer, things will never make sense. Not for the families of the victims, or for the victimized, the still wary community of a once amiable Idaho college town.

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