Melanie Scarborough: Justice miscarried on the border

Now that the last of the “Jena 6” has been released from custody, perhaps the professionally outraged will turn their attention to the “El Paso 2,” who have been even more grievously abused by the legal system.

The pair, Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, were U.S. Border Patrol agents until last year, when they were sentenced to 12 and 11 years in prison, respectively, for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks as he fled from them.