Yes, we're serious. This really just happened.
'The Green River Killer' has been convicted of murdering at least 49 women and government leaders in Washington State worked hard to try to free him from prison.
Phil Shiver reports:
In 5-4 decision last Thursday, the Washington State Supreme Court narrowly denied a petition that would have released thousands of inmates from state prisons — including some who committed serious violent crimes such as assault, rape, and murder.
One of those inmates would have been infamous serial killer Gary Ridgeway, a stunning report by PJ Media noted.
Ridgeway, also known as "the Green River Killer," was sentenced to 500 years in prison in 2003 after being convicted of murdering 49 women, many of whom were prostitutes, in the 1980s and 1990s. He later confessed to murdering upward of 80 women.
Here's more about Ridgeway from the PJ Media report:
He would take the women and girls, have sex with them, and then strangle them, watching the light go out of their eyes as he squeezed the life out of them. Sometimes he'd use a rope and sometimes he'd use his bare hands. He'd pose their bodies and sometimes come back and have sex with the corpses. His first victims were found in the Green River, giving the monster his moniker.
You'd think everyone would be in agreement that such an individual, by virtue of his actions, has forfeited his right to life within society. Yet for the legal activist group that brought the petition and for the four justices who supported it, that was not the case.