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JonLP24

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1. This is another reason why I'm against the death penalty

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Jun 28, 2020, 11:55 PM

Jun 2020

If you are a serial killer or have unsolved murders it is easy to avoid the DP if you plead guilty to them.

This is how the Green River Killer avoided the DP.

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Golden State Killer Suspect Expected to Plead Guilty and Avoid Death Penalty [View all] RandySF Jun 2020 OP

This is another reason why I'm against the death penalty JonLP24 Jun 2020 #1

DeAngelo's in his mid-70s and California has a death penalty moratorium greenjar_01 Jun 2020 #2

I listened to a podcast series about this case around a year before they solved it. PTWB Jun 2020 #3

"I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden Gate Killer" betsuni Jun 2020 #4

I agree but don't tell that to most people who followed this case for decades Awsi Dooger Jun 2020 #5

I didn't know that. betsuni Jun 2020 #6

It's really sickening Awsi Dooger Jun 2020 #8

By the way, the church my parents dragged me to as a teenager in Tacoma, Washington, betsuni Jun 2020 #15

Why? robbob Jun 2020 #7

I just mentioned reasoning in the post above Awsi Dooger Jun 2020 #9

JFC it has nothing to do with politics and Trump obamanut2012 Jun 2020 #12

I mean! greenjar_01 Jun 2020 #16

nothing she did had anything to do with "solving" the case Hamlette Jun 2020 #10

That is the reason obamanut2012 Jun 2020 #11

Gotta agree with a lot of this greenjar_01 Jun 2020 #14

The only internet sleuths who were even close were those who insisted EARONS was also greenjar_01 Jun 2020 #13