In states that have the death penalty, why not kill them in a timely manner instead of letting them sit and crowd the jails?
2007-01-15 07:58:04 · 20 answers · asked by Lg 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The law dictates that they be given the chance to exhaust all avenues of the appeal process before they are put to death.
2007-01-15 08:02:06 · answer #1 · answered by zappafan 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Here is the best reason- we don't want to execute people who are innocent.
Over 120 people have been released from death rows with evidence of their innocence. Many of these people had served over a decade before being found to be innocent. They would have been executed if the process were speeded up.
Also, once and execution takes place, the case is closed. If the wrong person was convicted the killer is still out there.
By the way, the death penalty costs much more than life without parole. And lots of the extra cost comes even before the trial. I think that the extra money should be spent for much needed victims' services.
2007-01-15 16:46:06 · answer #2 · answered by Susan S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Charles Manson became convicted in the previous the dying penalty. he's convicted for existence. "does every person incredibly get fried on dying row?" circulate ask those in Texas. They achieved 40 final year.
2016-12-12 12:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by fearson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just a way for the county and state to get our tax dollars. We have to pay the prison for every inmate for every day that they are "housed" in prison! It makes me mad as well! Our tax dollars could go to feed the children or somthing like that besides to house inmates on death row!!
2007-01-15 08:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by sasy_tabby 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It all comes down to the fact that lawyers get paid by the hour. While i believe that everyone is entitled to the protection of the law, sometimes it seems a little ridiculous, doesn't it.
2007-01-15 08:02:27 · answer #5 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because if we did the liberal "advocacy groups" would claim that we were denying these animals their "constitutional rights"; what happened to the right of the victim to look down from Heaven and be able to see their killer take the Express Elevator to Hell? I don't know.
2007-01-15 08:03:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They have to exhaust the appeals process first. Then and only then can they go forward with the execution. Besides it costs more to kill a criminal then to let them rot in jail.
2007-01-15 08:02:13 · answer #7 · answered by ÐIESEŁ ÐUB 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
what else would we do with the more than $100 million dollars we spend on death row inmates every year?
give it to the poor or waste it on education?
2007-01-15 08:02:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
All the legals take time to work out. It is not easy getting the approval to kill someone.
2007-01-15 08:01:31 · answer #9 · answered by ╦╩╔╩╦ O.J. ╔╩╦╠═ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
b/c ever one is entitled to an appeal guilty or not and i think its good they do it like they do cuz nowdays with all these criminal cops they r always finding out people arent really guilty and they r letting them out and it would b the greatest injustice of all to kill an innocent person
2007-01-15 08:06:43 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋