A four-month series of “Funky Winkerbean,” a comic strip syndicated by King Features, will focus on capital punishment. The storyline, titled “The Danny Madison Casebook,” examines the problems and emotions of the death penalty as seen through the eyes of a public defender. The comic strip is by cartoonist Tom Batiuk, and it will appear in 400 newspapers nationally. It may also be viewed at http://kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fwinker/about.htm.