The verdict in the OJ murders case should have set off the financing of a "common-sense" think tank on:
1) changing the jury selection process (or banishing jury & having a 3-judge panel that won't fall for lawyer's tricks & obfuscations ... {or maybe offer a degree specialized in adjudicating murder cases?}
2) establishing a panel of judges just to review "if court case suffered undue influence via poverty or wealth" or publicity public opinion, etc.
3) If prior public status "love" for the defendant caused undue influence?
4) If the facts of the case had undue lost-influence in the case.
5) whatever else practical people can think to add.
Research done by Iowa State University criminologists/sociologists found that each murder costs society $17 million. (tabulated prison housing costs, lost wages involved for deceased & family, increase in insurance rates, increase police hiring costs, etc.) This means that by 2009 FBI stats, murder cost the US around $263 billion = nearly as much as Medicaid. And by that tab Gary Ridgeway's 43 murders cost this country $816 million, not counting the ones he didn't admit to or just couldn't recall. Don't forget the masses counted as missing persons that have really been murdered.
Statistics vary but one data base says Florida a life sentenced murderer on average serves 12 years? Many released murderers kill again -- they've crossed some threshold on killing somebody. Many violent offenders are being released now not because they've behaved or mellowed but because the politicians want to diminish crowding, to lower costs.
The trend is anti-death penalty & believing liberally in giving second chances, "recidivism stats be damned". The "fake media" under-reports this (just research how many violent prisoners are being released for no justifiable reason & "be-damn" for the common citizenry's safety. We're heading to hit an iceberg - so who is piloting this our citizen-ship?