Here’s what will actually happen:
pre-trial manuvering: 1 year
the trial itself: maybe 2 months
wait on death row during standard appeals: 10 years
more appeals from fringe legal groups: 1 year
So the murderer gets executed maybe 12 years after the crime. Same thing will happen in the Fort Hood case. That’s an insult to the victim, the jury, and the country.
And it becomes next to useless as a deterent.
**So the murderer gets executed maybe 12 years after the crime.***
Only if the State fails to remember the execution date. We had a foul murder just over the line in OK. The murderer was caught, tried and sentenced to die.
Problem: then state forgot about him and missed his exicution date. so they resentenced him to life in Big Mac.
Ecc 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Normally I am cynical about the criminal justice system, but in this case, I expect he will be killed in prison. From what I understand, child murderers fare very poorly there.
Let’s hope they put him in general population.