I think he was saying it because of the "judge" part to his alias, that can throw you off, which is understandable.
here, take a look at wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Death
I was really hoping Jerry would do a Death to go with Dredd. I wanted to go back and get that old horizon kit ages ago but never got around to it. This trumps it though. So awesome we get it as the second piece (good and then bad, ying to go with the yang - PCS always does this right i.e. Ryu & Akuma, Lion-O & Mumm-Ra, Dredd & Death)
Hope it is based on that pic posted before, though he has a skeleton-like physique, obviously the legs won't look so elongated being as it's the angle depicted in the pic. The hands will look cool as hell. Can't wait for full reveal
bring on the death
An example to show he is very much a bad guy
.. taken from the batman-dredd cross-over comic: