I remember this, why is it that so much time passes between the conviction and the death chamber when there is no doubt at all the guy is guilty?I hear ya. The mandatory appeals process on death penalty outcomes. It just takes a while. Texas actually does a pretty good job. In California just recently, Westerfield was given the death penalty in the van Damm murder. The FOX News Channel guest Napolitano said that their appeals process is so involved that it would take TWENTY years to work through the appeals before he is executed. I think the current average for them is 16 years?
The youngest of these two girls would be seventeen now, and the other 20. It's not right that these guys get to live off the taxpayer for so long.
I'm not sure what the Texas average is, but somewhere around 8-10 years I believe.....