WASHINGTON -- It is easy to understand how everyone in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case feels.If I were Martin's mother, I'd want his killer's heart on a platter. If I were Zimmerman's mother, I'd be grateful my son escaped greater injury, however he managed. If I were African-American, I would fear for my sons and be furious at a system that condones vigilantism, and then acts as though naming a teen's death a "tragedy" ends the discussion.

The latest chapter of the ongoing saga to exhume bodies at the Dozier School for Boys is another one of rejection -- this time from the secretary of state. A team of researchers from the University of South Florida, led by Erin Kimmerle, has been working tirelessly on exhumation after Attorney General Pam Bondi received a similar rejection earlier this year from a circuit court judge.