Sound Politics Public Blog: R.I.P. Washington State Death Penalty

July 23, 2007

R.I.P. Washington State Death Penalty

Prosecutors in the Linnik murder decided not to seek the death penalty against Terapon Adhahn. This was in exchange for revealing where her body was located. So any reasonable murderer can conclude one thing.

If you do a decent job hiding the body, if caught, you can spare your life in Washington state.

Posted by Palouse123 at July 23, 2007 03:08 PM | Email This

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1. Gerry Horne should be disbarred. Now taxpayers will foot the bill to keep this worthless murdering rapist alive and fed for the rest of his life. Hopefully someone will get to him inside the state pen and serve justice.

Because we know that we certainly can't trust most pansy WA prosecutors to mete out justice.

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 23, 2007 11:51 PM

2. Gerry Horne has sent more people to death row than anybody else in Washington. Pansy? Hardly. It was the right call in an impossibly horrible situation.

Posted by: Bax on July 24, 2007 07:14 AM

3. Right call? Hardly.

The prosecutor agreed to the deal in exchange for Adhahn leading them to the body. This amounts to a deal with the devil. Why should society let murderers have the upper hand like that? They already were holding Adhahn on another crime. Why couldn't they let the search continue until they found the body on their own? Then Adhahn holds no death penalty bargaining chip.

And before you bring up the inevitable family "closure" argument, families don't get to decide how justice proceeds in capital murder cases. The family isn't paying for Adhahn's incarceration for the rest of his life, the public is. While finding her body sooner may provide some temporary relief for the family, it doesn't bring Zinna back. There's no reason the search couldn't have gone on for at least another month to see if the body was found or if they could have got a confession out of Adhahn without the deal.

Posted by: Palouse on July 24, 2007 07:49 AM

4. There is hope that he is found guilty of another, and could be sentenced to die.

There is hope..............

Posted by: chris on July 24, 2007 10:01 AM

5. Don't forget that Stefan discovered that he's registered to vote while likely not being a citizen.

Posted by: Michele on July 24, 2007 04:49 PM

6. Palouse, a small correction for you...

As members of the collective body called public, the family also helps to pay for this creep to keep his worthless life alive however small the family's portion may be. That's where the injustice lies in this plea deal.

Posted by: DopioLover on July 25, 2007 08:41 AM

7. #6, Fair enough. Revise that to read, "the family isn't paying for 99.9999% of his incarceration, the rest of the public is."

Posted by: Palouse on July 25, 2007 09:22 AM

8. Ridiculous. Capital cases should not be negotiable. This sick depraved monster deserves to be put down. We put down pit bulls in some states for their potential to do harm, and yet, we let sexual deviants re-offend over and over. I would to see these guys sent to their own island, far from society, and let them re-offend and torturously kill each other. Now, that would be social justice.

Posted by: Scout's Honor on July 30, 2007 03:58 PM