Thought about this while listening to a series about serial killers. But if the crime is proven and it was intense enough to warrant a death sentence why does it take years sometimes decades for them to finally get punished?
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Because almost anything can be appealed.
There’s appeal from the defendant itself, and/or appeal from civil rights groups. Each of these process takes a lot of time, considering the backlog most judicial courts have. Then there are multiple levels of appeal. Depends which state or which prosecuting body. But it can reach all the way up to the supreme court. Each of these processes take months, if not years.
Add these all up and you find the answer why death row inmates spend a long time there (and also why the death penalty system is far more expensive than people think).
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