That’s the method of choice for California’s death row population.
Meanwhile the citizens of the state pay exorbitant fees year after year so they can throw urine and feces at prison staff.
yes, it is absolutely disgusting... but believe it or not, there have been longer waits between conviction and execution in other states...
Actually, that DOES happen more than enough times, but is extremely rare on death row. All the time I spent on death row at San Quentin, I do not remember it ever happening. The reason is, the chumps on death row, all have appeals going, and they do not want to jeopardize those appeals. Now, after all their appeals are finished, then they need to be watched with both eyes. Inmates dying while on death row, is something that happens with a certain amount of regularity.
Per the article:
Fourteen California inmates have been executed since capital punishment was reinstated in 1978, while 63 have died from natural causes and 23 by suicide.
In other words, 86% of California death row inmates die of something other than execution, and California has carried out an execution only once every 2.7 years since 1978.
During the period that California executed fourteen inmates, over 95,738 murders were committed in California.