That’s over 30 years and millions of dollars ago.
That’s about the average in Florida
>>That’s over 30 years and millions of dollars ago.
And that’s WITH a full confession by the killer.
So change the laws. Would you rather have no executions? The scumbag was kept off the street so he could not re-offend vs being turned loose , as is happening all the time and a much bigger problem.
Exactly! He should have been put to death years ago and saved the state hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, I know about convicting the innocent, but after, say, five years, carry out the sentence.
Indeed, that's NOT justice for anyone. Not the victims' family, not the state, not the public. It makes a joke of the law.
The death penalty is ineffective when it routinely takes 30 years or more to carry out an execution. Appeals after a conviction in a capital cases should be expedited at all levels of appeal (state and federal, all the way to the Supreme Court).
If someone was wrongly convicted then they should not spend 30 years on death row. If someone was rightly convicted then they should be executed within a couple of years of their conviction.
We also need to bring back public executions (preferably hangings in the courthouse square), but that is a rant for another day.
Thirty years?
Here in California there are men on Death Row who were sentenced 40 years ago, and they are no closer to their execution date than when they entered San Quentin. A travesty. They will probably die of old age before the needle can get them.
It was worth it.