The New York League of Women Voters has urged state lawmakers not to attempt a “quick fix” solution to the state’s flawed death penalty law. “We now have a unique opportunity to re-examine the use of the death penalty in New York,” said Marcia Merrins, president of the League of Women Voters. In June 2004, the New York Court of Appeals declared the state’s death penalty unconstitutional. The League of Women’s Voter’s, which plans to host a series of capital punishment forums throughout New York in the coming months, believes that the ruling offers lawmakers an opportunity to look beyond the immediate concern of the unconstitutional provision and examine other issues that will inevitably emerge despite the passage of patch work legislation. (New York Law Journal, July 15, 2004) See DPIC’s Summary of the New York ruling. See New Voices.