Why does it take so long for people to be executed who are sentenced to death?

Question

I was just curious why it takes so long for people to be executed once they’ve been sentenced. I feel like sometimes it takes years on years .

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Answer 1

I live in a state that used to have the death penalty but doesn’t today. I remember when the efforts were underway to repeal it. It turned out there were cases where the persons sitting on death row were innocent and DNA evidence proved it, but the state prosecutors said, “It’s our job to carry out the conviction, and that’s what we’re doing”. They KNEW they had convicted the wrong person, DNA evidence proved it, but the prosecutors kept going for it.

I don’t know. Half of the time I want the death penalty to be available again. But I remember how it was abused and that makes me say “nope”.