How long does the average death row inmate sit on death row before execution and does anyone know of a...?
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Check the website below:\n\nhttp://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/410/410lect15.htm\n\nHope that this answers yours questions.\n\nGood luck
1181605
Actually if you do some research you'll find that an average more money is spent on a prisoner on death row.  Appeals, lengthy stay on death row, etc adds up also.  The death penalty is not only wrong its wasting taxpayers money!  But what is the Gov. doing thats right these days anyways?
763873
No he is still in prison, he was just sentenced to death.  It hasnt been carried out yet.
490858
It amazes me in America, a country built on the foundation of Christianity, that we condone state sanctioned murder.  No matter a person's belief, the only person who has the right to take a life is God, Allah or whatever you may call him or her.  \n\nIf we are talking about punishment, life in prison is no cakewalk it's severe punishment.  If we are talking about costs, it costs LESS to house an inmate in prison for life than to put him or her on death row.  The appeals process is so costly and the person remains on death row for so long, that it costs the tax payers more to kill someone than to send them to prison for life.  Often times, when an inmate is murdered via state sanction, they are not even the same person they were when the committed the crime.  You have folks being "put to death" 20 years after they committed the crime. So the state is then murdering someone who is no longer the person who committed the crime...umm the point of that is WHAT?  \n\nAnd finally, the death penalty does not deter crime.  Low life murders don't stop murdering because they know they can get the DP.  Crime rates don't decrease because of the DP.  And if you are going to get a low life off other streets and they are sitting in prison for 20 years before getting iced, then just let em rot in prison. I am just glad that I ain't the one who has to pull the switch. I would never be able to sleep at night.
113512
A sane society kills its maniacal killers. Those on death row are beyond rehabilitation. They are beyond any usefulness to society. In hard labor for life they are a continuing burden on society. How beneficial would it be to still have Gacy, Bundy, et al still alive and in prison? Would you want these horrendous people out in public on a "crab boat" with a chance to escape? Are you for real?\n\nIt would be better to keep the appeals process from going on for 15 years, at the waste of taxpayer dollars.
415079
Death Sentence = Capital Punishment
1089367
I don't believe in the death penalty. They are just commiting murder, and two worngs never make a right. God decides who should die at what time, so I think you are right, they should put him in jail for life and make him suffer for the pain he has caused people.
1036815
Texas has an express lane for people on death row your prob gonna be wanted for like 50 years.
800809
not as many as should have been hanged....how many murders and such would not have been committed in the first place in the UK if the death sentence had not been abolished...sentencing is to lenient these days ...we have child rapists and murderers getting out after serving a few years that's not right...BRING BACK THE NOOSE
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Do you realize that there is a one month appeal and if the verdict is upheld, he must be executed within 30 days? Hmmm, that has him gone by January 5th, 2007. Done.
800060
I am so torn on the death penalty issue... I don't have a stance yet.\n\nFrom a strictly economical side, I'm against the death penalty, because I've heard in multiple places that it costs 2-3 times more than life in prison w/o parole.\n\nFrom a moral standpoint, it's hard to say.  Killing someone removes them once and for all as a threat.  Granted, while in jail they are only a threat to other inmates and the prison guards, but still, you cannot make a blanket judgment on whether those people (in the case of the other prisoners) deserve the threat, or (in the case of the guards) willingly accept the threat by being in that job.  Also, there's always the chance of escape.  You don't have that chance with death.\n\nIn addition, there's the obvious fact that if you accept the death penalty, almost regardless of standards for conviction, you're going to eventually get an innocent person in there.  Making the standards for conviction extremely high just leads to multiple expensive appeals, which brings us back to the economic reason to be against it.  It also makes the death penalty so rare that any appeal to it being a deterrent is just silly at that point, because even if you are convicted you'd have to be one of the unlucky ones to get the chair.\n\nIn fact, I have not seen any evidence that it actually serves as a deterrent, regardless of the extensiveness of its use.\n\nI do believe that the highest value must be placed on human life, but when you have one human life that continues to threaten others, isn't it respecting that value to end their life?\n\nI don't know.  I'm an atheist struggling to have a position on this.
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I want to say I believe.  As a matter of fact most of my life I was the strongest supporter of the death penalty....UNTIL\n\nUnlike some of the other people who have posted to this question....I have first hand experience to what happens when you are incarcerated.  \nThere is no internet, gym, phone time, lounge time....\nMost inmates get limited 10 minute calls once a week to people who are on their call list.....NO INTERNET......, NO GYM, lounge time is confined to your bunk....which usually doesn't even have a pillow.  Showers are with others and you crap in front of the guards.  \nOh and death row inmates or lifers get worse than that.  \nAll you have in prison is time to think.  What could be worse than your mind killing you slowly.  Every day you have to think about what you did, the people you lost and/or affected.  Day in and day out....memories, thoughts.....that is a slow horrible death.....and that is what they deserve.  Every day to live with the consequence of what they did.\nThat is MY complete torture....but I can't honestly say that if something was to happen to my children TOMORROW and they arrested the person who did it....that I wouldn't want him to die and know he was in the ground.  BUT...what I am trying to say is slow, mental death....is PURE TORTURE.\n\nJust my thoughts though.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-02-28-elderly-inmates_x.htm\n\nMaybe this website will help with your question.  \n\nForty-two inmates are 80 or older. The state's oldest death row inmate is 76 and was condemned for two killings committed 17 years ago. Florida's oldest inmate is Daniel Sallade, a 90-year-old serving a 23-year sentence for sex crimes against a child. He was sent to prison just three years ago.
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Execution is complete upon the death of the inmate. Thus a doctor is always there to confirm death before the inmate is removed from the execution chamber/place of execution, be it from hanging, lethal injection, firing squad and.. need I mention beheading? :)\nIf by a miracle, the inmate should come back to life after and despite all that, then I supposed he should be set free.. technically that is. The rationale being that he had served his sentence.. executed and pronounced dead.\nHe couldn't therefore be sentenced again for no man could be punished twice for the same offence and I believe its what we call 'double jeopardy'.\nTherefore, if you die and live after being executed... you are a free man... but is there such a chance? :)
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No, I don't think ANYONE could handle it.  No books!? And - as to whether it can correct inmates... do people actually DO 20 years of SOLITARY confinement?  That's almost sick.  I think people would go crazy after 6 months... if not much much sooner.  So, if by 'correct' you mean, 'make go crazy and perhaps be even more dangerous and certainly more expensive to take care of' then yes.
90444
Is that a trick question?  It is until they die, unless the judge has set a chance for parole.
755022
Currently it is more expensive to keep someone on deathrow until execution than it is to keep them in prison for life.  Some estimates say that it can be up to three times as much to execute someone.  You cannot shorten the appeals process because of our constitutional right to appeal.