Posted on 05/16/2015 12:59:28 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The vast majority of those cases took place at the state level. Federal prisoners like Tsarnaev are even less likely to be executed. Between 1988, when Congress reinstated the death penalty for federal cases, and 2013, 71 federal defendants were sentenced to death; only three were executed, compared with 10 who had their sentences or convictions overturned on appeal.
(One inmate died on death row, and another had his sentence commuted to life by President Bill Clinton in 2001.) No federal execution has taken place since 2003. Of those still awaiting execution, the typical inmate has already spent a decade on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. (The center’s data is current through 2014.)
Tsarnaev’s case, of course, is atypical in a number of ways. There is little doubt about his guilt; his lawyer admitted at trial that Tsarnaev carried out the bombing, although he technically pleaded not guilty. And his crime was unusually high-profile.
Perhaps the closest parallel in recent decades was the case of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who was executed in 2001, four years after his sentencing. But McVeigh dropped his appeal in 2000; had he not done so, he could have remained on death row for years longer.
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Maybe his fellow inmates will help the situation out. That tends to happen.
Why does it take more than a year or two to execute somebody who has been so sentenced? This is sickening!
Once a person has so obviously been proven guilty, why can’t his execution take place promptly? Why let the lawyers play with it for 20 or 25 years?
this lengthy procedure is a weakness in the system.
this lengthy procedure is a weakness in the system.
My 4 July 2038 date in “the pool” is looking better all the time.
It's amazing how much faster things moved in '33:
"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care! Get to hell out of here, you son of a bitch [spoken to the attending minister]... I go sit down all by myself... Viva Italia! Goodbye to all poor peoples everywhere!... Lousy capitalists! No picture! Capitalists! No one here to take my picture. All capitalists lousy bunch of crooks. Go ahead. Pusha da button!"
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