Certain serial killers, such as Gary Ridgway in Seattle who admitted to having killed 48 prostitutes and runaways, as well as an “angel of death” nurse who admitted to having killed 17 people, are sentenced to life in prison. Meanwhile, mentally ill and poor murderers who cannot afford good lawyers or who have not received much media attention are given the death penalty. A case stated on Antideathpenalty.org that in Alabama, David Hocker was executed after a one-day trial. His mental illness was not adequately described to the jury. They also cited another case from Alabama, where James Hubbard, a 74-year-old man who had been on death row for 27 years, was executed. Hubbard was battling medical problems that would likely soon have caused his natural death: cancer, high blood pressure and early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Another case in Texas involved a man, Kelsey Patterson, who had schizophrenia. He was executed even after the Pardon and Parole Board recommended pardon after learning of his time spent in mental hospitals and his unintelligible ramblings. On average, each year there are around 20,000 murders and around 15,000 arrests. Of these 15,000 arrests, only about 14,000 murder cases are brought to court; others are not because not all cases have sufficient evidence. Of these 14,000, only 10,000 are convicted. And among those who were convicted only