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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Because the State wants to perform an elaborate panto play in order to convince themselves they are killing the “right” person for the crime in question. As important, they want to convince voters they are doing everything possible to ensure they are killing the “right” guy for the crime in question.
This is done by a series of appeals at the local, State, and Federal level and, only after ALL these steps have been taken to ensure they are killing the “right” person for the crime in question, will they actually kill them.
And then, they hope no one EVER discovers anything that might prove they killed the wrong person. Because there ARE several cases where that has happened.
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