nevermind, its New Mexico....
man I have to wake up!!!
Off hand, having the sentencing choice sounds like a good way to go. Juries that don't want to execute some criminal, will now be able to put the clown in permanent storage. Another thing is the tax savings. The cost of the trials with all the mandatory appeals have made the death penalty more expensive than life imprisonment. Sure, some can 'believe' that the killers will be paroled just as it's possible to 'believe' anything we want. The rest of us have to work with what is.