[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

If we were more like Singapore

But we're not. We're not an authoritarian state. We are a Republic with guaranteed freedoms, and due process.

[Zhang Fei]

But we’re not. We’re not an authoritarian state. We are a Republic with guaranteed freedoms, and due process.

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I believe they also have due process. It’s just their due process occurs a lot faster. Based on Google searches, it appears that their average arrest to appeals to execution (or acquittal) time span maxes out at 5 years. Based on perhaps an hour of Google research over the past decade, I think convicted criminals get two appeals.

Prior to the 60’s, and the downward spiral of the American court system, we used to execute murderers as quickly* 3 years after their arrest, including all appeals. Not sure if the Supremes put a crimp on expedited trials and appeals, but we are now at 20 years for Death Row prisoners.

* Sacco and Vanzetti were fried 7 years after their arrest. Hickock and Smith, the murderers of the Clutter family depicted in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, were executed just over 5 years after their arrest. But Bruno Hauptmann, the Lindbergh baby killer, was executed just 1-1/2 years after his arrest.