He admitted to the crime. He should have been [executed](#spoiler). This is why we need the Singapore method for dealing with EVIL people like this. The needful should have been done in 72 hours or less. Why the fuck has this guy been sitting in jail for decades and is allowed to appeal and is now going to be free again. He should be 6ft down and feeding the worms. Archive: https://archive.today/iPYJP From the post: >>A New Yorker has had his conviction overturned for the 1979 murder of Etan Patz, a six-year-old boy abducted and killed the first time his parents let him walk home alone from a school bus stop. Pedro Hernandez should be retried for the killing of Etan Patz or set free, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. Hernandez was convicted in 2017 of killing Patz in 1979, after confessing he'd lured the youngster to a basement in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood. On Monday, the appeals court ruled that instructions given to jurors as they prepared to deliberate that trial were improper and prejudicial, the New York Times warned.