It's kind of like taking people who really love Burger King down to the slaughterhouse.
I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.
Perhaps now he will finally get the punishment that a jury unanimously agreed he deserved.
You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through.
Most states have effective habitual offender laws. These laws take the most likely group of potential capital murderers off the street,
cannot be erased by children's books or misplaced celebrity.
There are less murders, less murder victims and less death sentences because, in our view, we have been giving this problem the right medicine.