The state of Washington got a good deal here. No way will that state execute anybody unless they're forced.
True :(
Two of them were "volunteers", in other words, they gave up their appeal rights. The remaining one was the most heinous, he raped a woman by holding her infant daughter at knifepoint. After his arrest, a neighbor came forward and testified against him. While in prison, the rapist gave "sexual favors" to a male prison librarian, who removed negative writeups from his prison file, making him eligible for work release a mere few years after the crime. The first chance he got, he went back to the small town, and severed the heads of all three victims with a knife, the mother, the daughter and the neighbor. It was so horrific a crime, that even the weenie Clymers who are anti-death penalty couldn't find too much good to say about him.
And after the Ridgway deal, even he wouldn't have gotten the death penalty. I have lived in WA state since 1969, and even when we went pro-abortion in two public votes, I wasn't as ashamed to be a citizen of this god-forsaken state as I am today. This proves beyond a doubt that if a criminal is smarter than millions of dollars worth of investigation by a bunch of donut-eaters, he can get away with anything. This Clymer was so smug that he sqaundered away the nearly twenty years that he could have accumulated money in a Swiss bank account, and a fake identity, and just disappeared. He knew that the clowns investigating him made the Keystone Kops look like J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.