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Ridgway: A fair deal?

5:17 PM Fri, Feb 24, 2006 |


Ridgway made a deal to escape the death penalty. But did he really give a full confession?

In his new book, Seattle University Professor Tomas Guillen alleges that Ridgway didn't tell all, as the public thought. Rather, Guillen says, police and prosecutors were frustrated at his lack of candor and he charges that Ridgway should not have escaped the death penalty. Prosecutors however, say Ridgway's confession to 48 murders and the details he did give, brought closure to families of victims. Did authorities make the right call? If Ridgway didn't give a full confession, was the deal still fair?


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Christine said:

My theory is that he probably kept a lot of secrets to use later if needed. Why spill all and have nothing left? I think he played a lot of games with police and investigators during his trial process, the ball was in his court, and he knew that they *needed* him in order to find answers to some unsolved crimes. He obviously has some sort of a power complex as it is, why not use it once again.

As for whether it was a fair deal, in my opinion, they probably got more information from him than they would have if they'd put him to death, so for the families that it has given peace to, it was fair. Life in prison isn't going to be easy for him either. Perhaps he'll shed light on other unsolved mysteries as he gets older and wants a few more moments of fame. One can only hope.

Ladywlf said:

Seems to me that the perpetrators have more rights than the victims. Gary Ridgway's victims sure did not get a fair deal! Gary Ridgway even gave detailed confessions to 48 murders that he himself committed. Do I think that he held back information? You bet I do!! He even admitted to going back to where the bodies were and having sex with the corpse(s) on various occassions. He killed 48 people (or at least that is what he has confessed to) so he should have by all rights been given an immediate death sentence, just like the death sentence he gave his victims.

I highly doubt that there was what is referred to as "closure" for the families of these victims just because remains were found. Now the families have to live with the fact that their daughter, sister, aunt, granddaughter was killed by the Green River Killer. With that fact, just brings more trauma for the families. "What could I have done to have kept this from happening?" There are no doubt that these families still have sleepless nights thinking or dreaming about this!

I think Gary Ridgway got way more than a fair deal and to think that we the residents of King County paid for this creeps mass amounts of lawyers fees and now we get to pay for his keep for the rest of his life, makes my skin crawl!

Shiba Girl said:

Gary Ridgway has killed more people than any other serial killer in recorded history. Now, the Norm Maleng and the King County prosecutor's office has set a terrible precedence. Now, any killer that comes through our court systems can escape the death penalty with the logic of “you didn’t kill Ridgway, I killed less people than he did,” That has already happened with Charles Champion, who killed Des Moines Officer Steve Underwood. As a result, we will see more killers simply skate by without the possibility of ever actually receiving the death penalty. It doesn’t surprise me though. The State of Washington, especially King County, has always been notoriously soft on criminals, with their rights being more important than the rights of crime victims.

Christine Giannini said:

I agree with those who said Ridgway probably divulged more with the deal than he would have without it. The death penalty is a remnant of barbaric times that needs to be abolished. I'm glad the prosecutors decided not to spend the millions it would have taken to go to trial just to get the death penalty - what a waste of money on Ridgway that could be better spent on those who deserve it. If other killers get life because of it, so be it. In European countries, the longest one can be imprisoned for *any* crime is 20 years.

Steve said:

I just want to mention that I personally know of someone that has been accused of a crime,put in jail and was corerced into pleading guilty when this person was not guilty at all.Snohomish county is well known for their convictions and most and I mean atleast 70% are not guilty and are made to plea guilty.Especially if they have a public defender.If you cannot afford an attorney and you are arrested for something you did not do but were accused of the crime,you will be found guilty with the help of your public defender.In snohomish County you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.I think the whole judicial system in snohomish county is crooked and is out for one thing and that is revenue only.We need to investigate the snohomish county prosecuters office along with the public defenders office for coersion and dishonesty.There are many people in jail today that just should not be there and there is nobody to turn to for help if you cannot afford an attorney.I know first hand as I am involved in a case I have been accused of.My public defender had me pleading guilty and had me on my way to prison because he could not take the time to defend me.I am not guilty and thank god I have a father inlaw that believes me and put up $10,000.00 dollars for an attorney for me.There are many people in jail that cannot afford to do this so therefore they are convicted and sentenced to prison.When do we do something about this?When can we defend ourselves against not having any money?Why are the poor persicuted and hidden away from the rest?Why is it if you have money you can stay free.If you look at the scenerio you will see that a good percent of the folks in jail are Black.Why is that?Because most of them have no money.Therefore they are imprisoned.Something is wrong with this picture and something must be done to protect the innocent especially if they have no money.I wished you would just investigate this,spend some time in the snohomish county court house,talk with the inmates.Look into this please?? Knock them off of their high horse,make them do right!

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Shiba Girl said:

So by Christine Giannini's logic (keyword there is "Nini"), the life of a suspect is more important than that of their victim and that we should spend money on those that "deserve it". I guess if you rape and kill upwards of 50 to 70 women, your crime isn't heinous enough that you deserve the death penalty. And last time I checked, we are not living in Europe, we have our own system of law here that does include the death penalty.

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