For sheer goofiness, it's hard to beat the pronouncement of the Brit lawyer for Dr. Harold Shipman. The aforesaid physician had killed at least 215 (sic) patients. He was convicted four years ago of killing 15 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms. (With what wizardry this was to be accomplished, the sentencing judge did not say.) Dr. Shipman had been sojourning at public expense in Her Majesty's prison at Wakefield, when, just the other day, he hanged himself in his cell with a noose fashioned from his bed sheets. The aforesaid Brit lawyer, one Giovanni di Stefano, told a...