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.
If by “bleeding hearts” you mean the US Supreme Court, yes.
As Dr. William Petit said, when he pushed for the death penalty for the two men who broke into his house, tortured him and murdered the rest of his family “Do you WANT a criminal justice system based on economics?” Keeping murderers in prison for ten years would be cheaper.
Bullshit. Murderers on Death Row go crazy with appeals to NOT be executed.
Remember, Willie Horton was in prison for life-without-parole when he was allowed out on a work furlough, broke into a couple’s house, and tortured them for 12 hours before the man managed to escape because he knew Horton would kill them.
What can I say? The Supreme Court Justices often divide themselves along ideological lines. We all know of decisions made by the Supreme Court that we either agreed with or disagreed with, and this includes liberals as well as conservatives. In fact, in my experience one of the few decisions that the Supreme Court made that pissed everybody off was the way eminent domain is currently carried out, but that’s a thread for another time.