[econjack]

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.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I would say one year at the most. That's pleny of time for appeals. And yes of course mistakes will be made. Those are the fault of the jury, and no system of justice is perfect. As Captain Jack Aubrey would say:

"Men must be governed! Often not wisely, I will grant you, but governed nonetheless".

Not to be confused with Captain Jack Sparrow, who would say:

"You will always remember today as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow".

[Glad2bnuts]

Innocents being convicted in a Capital murder case, extremely rare. What they should do is if a lawyer looking to “make his bones” keeping bad people alive is found wrong, he sits on the lap of the executed in the electric chair... Not literally, just put them down too. Less lawyers, more fun in hell is how I see it.