Why do death row inmates spend so many years incarcerated before being executed?

[Mike_Yates]

Why do most death row inmates sit in prison sometimes for decades before they are eventually executed?

Some of them are on death row for so long, they actually die from old age/natural causes before their execution date.

 

[oggbashan]

In the UK, when we still had hanging, the normal length of time between sentence and execution was less than a week.

If there were appeals, perhaps two weeks.

Of course, we sometimes hung the wrong person, but they didn't have to wait around.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm okay with it, but then I am anti-death penalty.

Taking one innocent life is too high a toll.



But Mike, if, hell, when you get caught, I would advocate nice strong sheets and a sturdy pipe to tie them to so that you could, of your own desire, shorten the process.

 

[RedAllan]

Think of all the money the lawyers make while the appeals process runs on.

 

[JudasIscariot]

Torture.

The constant fear of tonight could be your last night. Just a form of torture added to an already barbaric procedure.

 

[PoppingTom]

Why do most death row inmates sit in prison sometimes for decades before they are eventually executed?

If ever you'll get death penalty, you'll understand it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If ever you'll get death penalty, you'll understand it.

It's been a while since you used this alt.

Was Stew getting old bro?

 

[JudasIscariot]

I can't help but think that all Yates threads are forms of information and training.

Is this his elaborate plan for making his move on Hoffman?

The sex tapes, the fetishes and questions about death row, undoubtedly knowing that's where he'll be heading.

Don't do it Mike Yates.

 

[Mike_Yates]

I can't help but think that all Yates threads are forms of information and training.

Is this his elaborate plan for making his move on Hoffman?

The sex tapes, the fetishes and questions about death row, undoubtedly knowing that's where he'll be heading.

Don't do it Mike Yates.

Hahaha!

 

[subdued_passion]

Hahaha!

Is that, 'Hahaha! How ridiculous!' or 'Hahaha! My plan is foiled, back to the drawing board'?

 

[Mike_Yates]

Is that, 'Hahaha! How ridiculous!' or 'Hahaha! My plan is foiled, back to the drawing board'?

No, I thought that the last post was asinine and ludicrous.

 

[CandiCame]

In Ky the state uses prisoners for free labor so it actually costs us about $10million more than a life sentence per execution. And we don't have any fucking money. So we try to keep them alive, as a labor force, as long as we can.

We're considering abolishing the death penalty altogether because we flat out can't afford it.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Executing and then incarcerating them would be to smelly.

 

[Mike_Yates]

This guy spent a staggering 30 years on death row before being exonerated by DNA evidence that proved his innocence.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/us/louisiana-glenn-ford-freed/

 

[Rolando2]

Think of all the money the lawyers make while the appeals process runs on.

who pays the bill? not the guy in the cell. he doesn't have a job

 

[Que]

Because the way-yay-ting is the hardest part

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Torture.

The constant fear of tonight could be your last night. Just a form of torture added to an already barbaric procedure.

Nobody is executed "by surprise." Executions are scheduled well in advance of the act. The condemned has plenty of time to consider his crimes, "get right with God" or simply finish the novel he's currently reading.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

Unfortunately, there have been cases of innocent men getting executed. I don't know what the percentage is but I'm assuming that's why it takes so long to actually execute someone. They go through multiple appeals to try to prove their innocence.

I'm of the mindset that the death penalty should be off the table unless there is an avalanche of evidence, then the guilty should be executed almost immediately after the trial.

An example of this would be like a crew robbing a bank. They kill some tellers or customers. Everything is captured on security cameras. There are multiple eye witnesses and they are captured on the scene by cops. There should be no appeals in those types of cases since they were caught red-handed.

If the evidence is not as abundant, then life in prison should be used since there would be a chance that the convicted is actually innocent.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It should be off the table period.

The amount of evidence is a subjective judgement as are most jury decisions.

 

[BotanyBoy]

In Ky the state uses prisoners for free labor so it actually costs us about $10million more than a life sentence per execution. And we don't have any fucking money. So we try to keep them alive, as a labor force, as long as we can.

We're considering abolishing the death penalty altogether because we flat out can't afford it.

They should all be used as labor...at the very least picking up trash off the side of the road.

Fucking CA gives them cable TV, weekly spa visits and all sorts of ridiculous fucking hippie idiot bullshit.

It should be off the table period.

The amount of evidence is a subjective judgement as are most jury decisions.

This^^^

There really is no point in it when locking them up and tossing the key cost a fraction, is just as effective and we can back pedal should it be found they are innocent.

 

[NickiC]

Because some people are innocent. Many are not and I feel so sad for their families. I can't imagine what it feels like. It is horrifying thing. But a person has a right to prove they are innocent. If you were wrongly accused you would cling to this law.

 

[Tigersman]

What saddens me is the fact that people tend to forget about the victims of the murders. People feel sorry for the murders but show or feel nothing for those killed. It saddens me that we may have a great mind or creative person. Even if the evidence such as fingerprints, DNA, gun shot residue or video proves a person's guilt there is always someone who would wants the killer spared. People should think first about the victims and their families.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Sometimes innocent people are executed for murder by bad science/forensics and are convicted on shoddy and questionable evidence.

I agree with Mellow_SixtyNine, unless there is a mountain of damning evidence against the suspect, life in prison should be their sentence.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What saddens me is the fact that people tend to forget about the victims of the murders. People feel sorry for the murders but show or feel nothing for those killed. It saddens me that we may have a great mind or creative person. Even if the evidence such as fingerprints, DNA, gun shot residue or video proves a person's guilt there is always someone who would wants the killer spared. People should think first about the victims and their families.

This is very wrong on its basal assumption. Nobody forgets about the victims and nobody feels zero over their loss. Someone such as myself does not want the killer "spared" but wants life honored and preserved in all of its forms. When one finds it acceptable to take some life, then the taking of any life is on the table, for example, abortion.

No amount of murdering subsequent to the actual crime will ever undo the crime, but mainstreaming murder in the name of revenge opens the Pandora's Box of seeing entire classes of people as expendable, no matter how it may affect their loved ones.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sometimes innocent people are executed for murder by bad science/forensics and are convicted on shoddy and questionable evidence.

I agree with Mellow_SixtyNine, unless there is a mountain of damning evidence against the suspect, life in prison should be their sentence.

As stated before in other terms, one person's mountain is another person's molehill.

Look at those jurors who could find no evidence whatsoever to convict OJ because they felt that in the past, people who shared their skin color were convicted on little or no evidence at all.