That guy hasn't gone to trial yet?!
Timothy Mcveigh was tryed and killed in less time.
On the one hand, we have a case where it wouldn't be good press it to have the perpetrator tried and executed in what would be presented as a spectacle by the leftist media mavens who decide what we get to see and hear in each day's news. On the other hand, we have a perpetrator who was percieved by the leftist media as being a mean and nasty right-winger. Leftists are against the death penalty in all cases except where the perpetrator is a right-winger. In the first case, a spectacle would be harmful to the current President, because it would be spun to look like vindictiveness and unfairness. If you think Scott Peterson is getting press attention, if the president's popularity could be harmed, it would be made large like OJ. In the second case, it was a necessity to get the perpetrator out of this world, because if he was allowed to hang around too long, some things might get known that would, shall we say, confuse people, and perhaps cause some harm to the president in offfice at the time..