The jurors know their liberal friends will turn them every way but loose if they vote to fry somebody.
This dude is so bad that apparently he is the very rare exception.
I spoke to a very liberal government employee from near Hartford about this the other day and he wanted this guy dead.
Yep, if you let the bad guys walk for serious murders, they up the ante. There’s always somebody who thinks he can get away with this sort of heinous crime because there has been no penalty for ‘lesser’ murders . . . .