Ok, I'm have my options on the death penalty but this isn't about the rights or wrong, for and against.
I want to ask if they have been charged, prosecuted beyond all doubt then what is the reason for the delay in the execution? 10, 20, 30 years?

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/time-death-row

It is all due to our laws and giving prisoners the rights to appeal their sentence..

In order to change how long they are held prior then laws of the land have to be changed...

Myself I say bring back the rope and get it done~~~

Ox Bow Incident

Measure twice, cut once.
Bureaucracy, there's a system in place with steps to follow.
If they don't follow the steps, then they aren't adhering to the law.
The system of law is supposed to be biased towards Blackstone's "better 10 guilty freed, than 1 innocent suffer" (misquote).

"prosecuted beyond all doubt" isn't the only consideration.

I agree. We long did away with it here and I think many crimes warrant it.

I dunno.
Here in the states, if you are a minority, police can execute you right in the street without a trial and even if you are innocent.
Thats pretty quick.

Seems to me if they were not out doing what they were not suppose to the Police would not have them down in the street!

Sure there are a some incidents that Police are in the wrong... But they have to work with what they have at the time the issue happens..

They can not go in patting others on the back till they know if they are going to shoot them first..

I do understand so many appeals to prove your innocent but not as many years as they let them sit int he prison system when you know without a doubt due to they even confessed why leave them in the system... Specially when it is a serial killer ect they will never reform...

We need to do as the UK and readjust appeals...

I have no idea why the delay. If you are convicted and receive the death penalty that means you have committed the most horrific of crimes against people. These type crimes are very rarely spontaneous
, they are well thought out and calculated.

For what reason should you be kept alive? Beats the hell out of me, I say the death should be carried out within 30 days of the conviction.

Exactly right.

Plus death penalty does little to deter crime.

I'm still wavering on this

If the death penalty is meant to deter possible future crimes, then no.

If it's to wipe them off the face of the earth because they lost the right to live amongst us, then hell yea!

me thinks you are definitely exaggerating a teenzy-weenty Bit!

The minorities don't need the cops for that, they are doing it themselves. Have ya followed the news coming out of Chicago lately?

a statistic offered to the bloodthirsty proponents
of the death penalty...

as of Oct 2015 we have executed over 1,400 individuals
in the united states since 1976...156 individuals have been
exonerated from death row-that is, found to be innocent and
released - since 1973...(to be exonerated, one must first, have
been convicted and sentenced to death in a court of law)

on the surface it may not seem to be of much importance..
but i assure you, had one of those 156 innocents been a
loved-one or a relative of yours, your advocacy of the
swift use of the death penalty would quickly change.....JMO

i agree with the Blackstone quote - better 10 guilty go free,
than 1 innocent suffer..

#abolish the death penalty

you mean the news of the Chicago police murdering L'Quan McDonald
and filing a false report and the chief of police and the mayor
hiding the video for over a year and those other officers who
witnessed the killing and just stood by and watched a fellow
officer unload 16 rounds into him, most of which were fired
into a limp body laying motionless on the ground...is that the
news you're talking about ?

No, that's not the one.
The mayor hid the tape? Who is this mayor?

The state should not be allowed to kill anyone.
It makes every person that is part of that state responsible for the death of another without personal accountability.

The only ones that have the right to take a convicted murder's life is the victim(s) of the crime. The state can remove the convicted from the population for public safety but the life of the convicted should be forfeit to their victims.

If no victims survive, the state locks the convicted away for the rest of their life. The victims, if so choosing, should have the option to end the convict's life for as long as they live. Whether it be 10 minutes or 30 years.

So lets say in the case where a serial rapist tortures and rapes 10 different woman. then all 10 get to kill him? or they have to vote on it?
Or a terrorist is convicted of mass murders in the general public.. lets say like the Boston Bombing, the survivors get to kill him?