Absolute best and worst US states to commit a cold-blooded murder in?

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@Elmer_J.Fudd

My only source for this is a TV movie, but didn’t Ted Bundy once ask a lawyer where a murderer would have the best chance of being executed in the shortest amount of time? The answer he got was “Florida”.

As I pointed out in another thread, that would have been really bad advice:

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

Is any one here Bundy knowledgeable? In the movie The Deliberate Stranger, he inquires as to what state is the most likely to execute a murderer. The answer was Florida. Bundy went there and was ultimately fried. If that was accurate it’s one example of something the opposite of deterrence.

I don’t know if the quote is real or not, but it’s highly unlikely. Bundy began killing outside Florida, at a time when the death penalty had been ruled unconstitutional. He also briefly accepted and then turned down a plea bargain that would have resulted in a 75 year sentence, so it doesn’t appear his plan was to have himself executed.

Beyond that, Florida is certainly not the best state to go to be executed. Texas has executed four times as many prisoners since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, as have a couple of other states. In terms of “efficiency” - the ratio of executions to current death row inmates - we’d be near last (having the second largest number of current death row inmates). Virginia appears to be the “most efficient” DP state.