Apart from mass murderers on the scale of Saddam Hussein, or even moreso, Adolf Hitler, Gary Ridgway is about as bad as a human being can get.

This afternoon, in King County Superior Court in Seattle, Gary Ridgway, otherwise known as "The Green River Killer," who murdered 48 young women in the Pacific Northwest, has just been given 48 consecutive life sentences to be spent in solitary confinement with no chance of parole. Furthermore, any financial profit made from any books he might write or any books, movies, or television dramas about him is to be awarded to the families of the victims.

Ridgway was (is) a psychopath. He is now removed from society to a maximum security prison where he can no longer interact with anyone other than prison personnel. Although a few of the victims' family members are not satisfied that he didn't receive the death penalty, most feel that justice has been served. I agree.

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Don Firth