Why does it take so long to execute someone on death row?
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If you’re going to do something irreversible like executing someone, you want to be assured that you’ve got the right guy. You really don’t want to execute the wrong person (and it still happens).
So there’s an automatic appeals that every person sentenced to death gets and additional appeals on top of that if they have a decent lawyer. All of these take time in court and courts move glacially slow.
This all adds up to a lot of time waiting to make sure you have the right person.
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