This was on my local station tonight;
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=4361611
In fact, consider his comments on Channel 3 in 1987 when two vicious murders triggered calls for re-establishing the death penalty in Vermont.
Judge Cashman/January 8, 1987:"Murderers tend not to repeat the offenses, the vast majority of 'em. While the rapist more and more the data's come out that by the time you've caught the rapist he's had four or five rapes already committed. And there's an extremely high rate of repeat offense with them. And if you're really talking about deterrence well yeah I could see an argument about why you'd want to impose the death penalty on a rapist,not that I'd recommend it, but I can at least understand that kind of argument."