A sea lion on death row

Really. No kidding. A sea lion on death row. "Willy" may be innocent, the victim of a bad identification. Of course all death row inmates are "innocent". Here's Christopher Stone in the WaPo.

It is not uncommon for a law professor to have a client on death row. Mine is a sea lion. He goes by C657, an identity branded into his flesh by the Army Corps of Engineers. C657 got onto the wrong side of the law by, allegedly, eating salmon at the base of the Bonneville Dam spillway in the Pacific Northwest. That, the National Marine Fisheries Service says, is a federal offense, punishable by rifle fire. We lost in the lower court, which ruled that sea lions had no standing. His case is before an Oregon appeals court.

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