This Isn't right !

[Kid Shelleen]

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Absolutely, 6 months and it's death!!

Flaw in the legal system....Where do we begin

I'm with you Shooter.

The mandatory appeals process is insane. Years or extra court sessions, that cost taxpayers millions, all just to uphold the original verdict. What a waste of time and money and what a cruel injustice to the victims families. I wonder how many times that these, never ending, appeals have overturned the original verdict? Of those that were overturned, I wonder how many were due to legal loopholes and how many actually discovered that the convicted prisoner was innocent?

I certainly don't advocate potentially putting an innocent to death, but does it really take DECADES to be sure?

[tombogan03884]

 We are not talking about any thing like Stalins's comment that he "would prefer to hang a hundred innocent  men rather than let one guilty man go free"
 Why should there be more than one appeal ?
How many of these convicts on death row, (They are no longer "people" they lost the right to that honorific when they were convicted of a crime serious enough to warrant death ) continue to commit violent crimes during the years they wait for execution ?