# Death Penalty **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 23, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty/648062 "2013-01-23T00:38:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 81
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty/648062/81 "2013-01-28T14:54:22Z")
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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia). 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. > [@Hottius\_Maximus](#): > > I would extend said penalty not only to murderers, but also to rapists, child molesters, kidnappers, terrorists (domestic OR foreign), and those convicted of particularly brutal assaults, and armed robbery. > > \ > > Trouble is, the bleeding hearts that oppose the death penalty generally don’t care for my solution of Death In Prison either. If by “bleeding hearts” you mean the US Supreme Court, [yes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coker_v._Georgia). --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty/648062)._