can a pregnant women serve death penalty?

Answer 1

I'm in absolute disagreement with Al Gore's statement, following:

"The bill, entitled the "Innocent Child Protection Act" expands a current ban on such executions by the federal government and many individual state governments.

Pushed by Republicans, but passing the House by a vote of 417-0, the bill was triggered by a recent question on the issue to Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore who said it would be up to the condemned women to decide to postpone her execution until she gives birth."

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/07/25/house.pregnant/index.html

The current law:

"§ 3596. Implementation of a sentence of death


(a) In General.— A person who has been sentenced to death pursuant to this chapter shall be committed to the custody of the Attorney General until exhaustion of the procedures for appeal of the judgment of conviction and for review of the sentence. When the sentence is to be implemented, the Attorney General shall release the person sentenced to death to the custody of a United States marshal, who shall supervise implementation of the sentence in the manner prescribed by the law of the State in which the sentence is imposed. If the law of the State does not provide for implementation of a sentence of death, the court shall designate another State, the law of which does provide for the implementation of a sentence of death, and the sentence shall be implemented in the latter State in the manner prescribed by such law.

(b) Pregnant Woman.— A sentence of death shall not be carried out upon a woman while she is pregnant.

(c) Mental Capacity.— A sentence of death shall not be carried out upon a person who is mentally retarded. A sentence of death shall not be carried out upon a person who, as a result of mental disability, lacks the mental capacity to understand the death penalty and why it was imposed on that person."

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00003596----000-.html

Answer 2

Pregnant women and people over 70 I think cannot serve the death penalty. Again, not sure, I live in the UK so...

Answer 3

No. But the Death Penalty process takes a long time so the baby will be born by then. Now if she's in jail and gets pregnant somehow and she's scheduled for execution in a week. The governor will grant a stay of execution until the baby is born.

Answer 4

Death Penalty does not = execution. It could mean that the person is jailed for life. And if the person is to be executed they are going to have plenty of time before it happens while they go through the appeals process. Plenty of time to get through the pegnancy.

Answer 5

Yes in the United States.

Answer 6

No. She would have the baby, then be put to death.

Anyway, peopel are on death row 10-15 years.... they usually aren't pregnant by the moment it's time to light 'em up.

Answer 7

Yes. By the time they put her to death the baby she is pregnant with now would be about 10 years old or older.

Answer 8

i'm sure they would what for them to have the baby then the baby would probely go to a foster home. the mom would probely then serve the death penalty

Answer 9

Sure, the Dumb-o-crats will dance around her body and steal the fetus for research.... They love doing those kinds of things because we as Americans wanted them to.

Also, the time period betwixt a sentence of death and execution are so long it seems VERY improbable for a pregnant woman to be executed.

Answer 10

The process from sentencing to death is a years, often a decades long process. The baby would have long since been born.