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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Innocents are regularly exonerated from death row. At least 200 since 1973. In 2003, Illinois governor George Ryan–himself a proponent of capital punishment–commuted over 160 death sentences to life after something like 13 exonerations in 4 years in that state alone.
Because of this, appeals are not rushed. Still, it’s a near certainty that innocents are being executed.
More info:
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence
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