[mikevp]

In the case of Rose Bird, at least, it wasn't "overturning too many death penalty cases", it was policy of a blanket rubber-stamp "overturned" on any and all death penalty cases. She was opposed to the death penalty, and was imposing her opinion on the matter over the law.

[TomMckenny]

That's certainly what the commercials said. But since no actual instance of ignoring the law was ever presented, I'm not sure why calm thinking individuals would solely trust vacuous repetitive hyperbolic TV commercials.

And then stretch that to two other Justices.

And as we now know the 80's clamor for less and less legal review and more and more executions had pretty bad outcomes[1]

[1]https://www.aclu.org/other/dna-testing-and-death-penalty