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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
Too long. Bureau of Justice stats below:
"BJS’s June 2021 annual death penalty review found that 2,570 prisoners were under sentence of death in the custody of 29 states and the U.S. federal government as of December 31, 2019, down 2.1% from the 2,626 prisoners on death row at the end of 2018. BJS reports that 2019 was the nineteenth consecutive year in which the number of prisoners on the nation’s death row declined, down by more than a thousand since reaching a peak of 3,601 in 2000." (death penalty info dot org)
I've long been of the opinion that every cell in every prison should come equipped with a curtained-off alcove area equipped with a rope and a strong crossbar. Any convict (not just death row inmates) wishing for an early exit could take it. Probably save Joe Taxpayer a bleepload of money.
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Certainly someone is at work at the appeal process for this young man ,, the right to appeal is a very necessary part of justice,, or at least it would be if the convicted again stood in jeopardy of a death sentence, how many people would agree to a retrial due to the lack of an appropriate punishment, justice delayed is justice denied