1. How can this guy ask for clemency while still processing his innocence? If he has indeed turned his life around, the first step would be admitting what he did.
2. Death row inmates in California, where it talks what, 20-30 years, if ever, to get executed, have far better conditions and privileges than lifers who are in the general prison population.
3. Instead of wasting years, and millions of taxpayers' $$$$ on these endless appeals, I would rather support life without parole, and give the $$ to the victims' families.
4. Anyone remember Karla Fay Tucker?
Good point.
As to the cost and time involved in implementing the death penalty, wouldn't another solution be to streamline the process?
In fact, though, I'm not a huge death penalty fan. But I certainly believe our society has a right to impose it if that's what the people, via their elected representatives, want.
that would be a good one, give the money that automatic appeals for a death penalty generate for lawyers to the victims families and put the felon in general population for the rest of is life.