[ClearCase_guy]

This is a travesty.

The people who were involved in the assassinated of Lincoln, and the people who actually assassinated Garfield and McKinley were all executed mere months after the crime.

[hanamizu]

the people who actually assassinated Garfield and McKinley were all executed mere months after the crime.

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The guy who tried to assassinate President-Elect FDR but hit Chicago mayor Cermak was executed less than two weeks after Cermak died. This was in 1933—within living memory. Now it takes two decades to reach the penalty phase of a trial?