In situations like this, it is really up to the police to enforce the law.
I like to point out that though judges hate the death penalty, the public craves it. And with gun liberty, the execution of the death penalty in the *vast majority* of cases has been taken away from judges and given to the public to carry out, in the absence of judges, juries, and the rest of the government.
And the public are killing violent criminals “to who laid the chunk”, as the old expression goes.
In the current circumstance, a vicious criminal has been denied the opportunity to wait 20 or more years on death row awaiting justice that will never be given. Instead he will be “just another prisoner”, as this judge wants.
But what the judge doesn’t imagine is that prison guards actually *do* have something of a relationship with some of the prisoners. The guards can make prisoners lives better or worse, and even make small exchanges, such as some privileges in exchange for information.
So without asking a prisoner to harm this cop killer directly, they can hint that after some brief punishment, a lifer without possibility of parole could have an easier time of things in ways that really matter in prison.
Yep— the detailed meaning of my post #2.