MAN ADMITS TO 48 MURDERS; SPARED EXECUTION!

My Way ^ | Nov 5, 1:23 PM (ET) | By GENE JOHNSON

[ConservativeMan55]

If ever there was one needed...this is it.

"Just Damn!!!"

[ConservativeMan55]

This guy is just freaky!

[ConservativeMan55]

[5veingrafts]

I guess two or three more and they would have considered the death penalty.

[jmcclain19]

The worst part about this plea bargin, besides the horror the families have to deal with, knowing this murder got a second chance when their daughters, sisters and mothers did not, is that it effectively renders Washington's death penalty nil.

Every lawyer worth his salt, will now argue that, hey, if the state gave someone with 48 murder counts a plea, how can they kill someone with 1 or 2 or whatever murder counts.

Sad Day for Washington Justice.

[ConservativeMan55]

Oh my! I never thought about that!

[StatesEnemy]

Don't worry - some jailbird vigilante will dispatch Mr. Ridgeway in a much more violent and apropos manner.

[Afronaut]

You bring shame to the conservative cause with your idiot post.

[ConservativeMan55]

I was kind of wondering about that as well.

But don't these guys get solitary confinement?

[ConservativeMan55]

I'm not sure if its the number. I believe it is more closely related to who was killed.

[StatesEnemy]

Ask Jeffie Dalmer.

[5veingrafts]

re 7, separated at birth?

[Heyworth]

The problem is that this guy had something to trade by leading them to bodies they hadn't discovered. He's also saved the state millions upon millions of dollars in court costs and legal fees it would take to go through the years of appeals a death penalty case requires.

[5veingrafts]

How many whores = how many normal folks?

[Not A Snowbird]

The whole thing boiled down to Ridgeway helping investigators find the remains of all these women so their families could have "closure" (shudder... I hate that word.) They're still finding sites, rather close to where I live.

That's why he was spared execution, he cooperated. Not saying it was right, but...

[bitcon]

Yes but at the same time the police didn't know where some of these bodies were hidden. By giving a plea bargain they forced Ridgeway to admit to more murders and turn over the bodies. I would like to see death for him but I think that it's better for the families of victims who didn't have remains to have the remains. There is a chance that he could still get death but only if they find another victim who he didn't confess to murdering.

[Lucky2]

Since he was spared he should now live in the general prison population. He'll be some big guy's boyfriend and subject to the prison way of punishment. If he lasts a year in the "big house" it will be a miracle.

[Norse]

>How many whores = how many normal folks?

What do you mean??