Posted on 10/11/2018 9:22:17 AM PDT by fwdude
thanks. I dug a little further regarding background and came up with this:
seems the political makeup of Wash. Supremes changed and was a factor in the ruling.
“The majority in his case ruled that outliers such as Ridgway dont render the law unconstitutional. But the courts make-up now might be more hostile to capital punishment. Four of the justices remain from 2006, three of whom were in the minority: Charles Johnson, Barbara Madsen and Susan Owens.
One of the newer justices, Charles Wiggins, has expressed concerns over indications blacks are statistically more likely to be sentenced to death in Washington than whites, while another, Sheryl Gordon McCloud, represented defendants who had been sentenced to death and criticized the way the death penalty is applied during her previous career as an appellate lawyer.”
I do like your version of a life sentence.
Thanks again.
What does race have to do with it?
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