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Originally Posted by zz0011
[1] Oh, sorry. 10 years. How speedy! My bad.
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Again, a comment stating we ought to be faster with putting people to death on death row. I'd like to know, do you not care about putting innocent people to death then? This is truly an honest question. Since 1973, 116 people have been exonerated from death row, only 14 of them were exonerated due to DNA evidence, and their average length of stay on death row before exoneration was 9 years. As a total, there have been 1042 years of innocent imprisonment on death row - and that's only counting those who have been discovered. In my state, Illinois, 18 people have been exonerated from death row since 1973 and the system was shown to be so flawed that our former
Republican governor, and former supporter of the death penalty commuted every single death sentence in Illinois to life in prison! (
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/arti...id=45&did=1149)
If we were faster at administering the death penalty, most of those innocent or likely innocent people who were exonerated would have been put to death. Is this something you just don't care about? Do you consider this collateral damage? Are
you willing to be put to death while innocent of the crime in order to maintain a speedy death penalty in the name of revenge against killers? I know I'm not.