[stormhill]

He's calling Oregon's bluff.
New Jersey had the death penalty on its books for a very long time during which some of the most gruesome and vicious crimes were committed including serial murders of young girls. Goes without saying, they were not deemed capital crimes.

[21twelve]

Here in Washington State the death penalty is still on the books. Although it has been surmised that it will never be used again. They gave Gary Ridgway (Greenriver Killer) a life sentence instead so they could get information on all of the unsolved murders he did.

Of course now it will be “Well, if the Greenriver Killer was not executed, my client shouldn’t be as he was nowhere near as bad.”