The laws obviously need a heckuva lot of changing.
It's beyond disgusting that a serial killer lives on for more than 20 years at taxpayer expense with a TEAM of lawyers pleading for his life.
Once it's clear he done the deed, he should be removed from Mother Earth tout suite. Clean, cheap, and everyone (including Mother Earth) breathes a sigh of relief.
And fewer scumbag lawyers would be attracted to the defending criminals field. Especially on taxpayer dime.
The law serves the worst of us as well as the best. These types of cases only prove that we are still a nation of laws and we don't fry/stone/hang/shoot/behead people willy-nilly.
Consequently, we say "oops" a lot less than other folks.
The second we start saying, "Ah, what the hell, shoot the sumbitch, everyone knows the guy did it" we're in trouble.