Yes, that’s what being anti-death penalty means.
Correct, which answers the OP’s question. Inmates spend 10-30 years on death row because anti-DP groups are trying to delay the process as long as possible, not in order to collect evidence for exoneration, but just in general. Their purpose in the process is not based on guilt or innocence - they don’t want a guilty man executed any more than an innocent one. Exoneration has almost nothing to do with it, and the desire to avoid executing the innocent is not the primary reason for the delay.
Regards,
Shodan
On the contrary, most of the delay comes from pro DP groups.
Here’s a fact for you. Most appeals are about trying to get the sentence overturned, and commuted to life imprisonment. The majority of times the appeal is ultimately successful.
The reason it takes so long is because appeals are blocked by your type.
I am shocked that an anti-death-penalty activist group wouldn’t be supportive of executing a guilty man.
Next, you’ll tell me an anti abortion group wouldn’t be supportive of a woman’s choice to have an abortion.
I find this argument somewhat…I don’t know, I just don’t like it because it gives the impression that you can make things right in any way by releasing the person. Yeah, you can release me after imprisoning me for 20 years or whatever falsely. Now what can you give me to make up for that? Cause unless it’s my goddamn life and youth and time back, releasing me doesn’t really make up for shit. Not that they try to make up for it, from what I understand; some wrongfully imprisoned people have, I hear, had to go through even more hell just to get ANY kind of compensation, to say nothing of compensation that even begins to approach something reasonable for the kind of suffering they’ve been put through.
Someone who has spent decades behind bars for a crime they didn’t commit aught to be given compensation at least on the order of ‘live like a king for the rest of your life, wanting for nothing, and being provided any and every luxury that you could conceivably desire’ and even then it’s still not really enough to make up for what’s been done to them.
But for the justice system to say ‘oops, our bad’ and just let you go, maybe with a little money for compensation? At that point I’m more inclined to go ‘fuck it, just kill me; I prefer oblivion to spending years and years suffering in prison on the hope that I’ll be exonerated and released to a completely destroyed and wasted life’.
I don’t have a firm opinion on the whole death penalty thing, sometimes I feel like it’s something I support, other times I feel like it should be gotten rid of entirely. But one thing I would unequivocally support is giving anyone with a 10+ year sentence the option of just choosing to be executed at once with no more fanfare or imprisonment. I suspect few would take it, but it would be an immense relief to those who would choose it.
That’s the main beef I have with people who think releasing a person who was wrongly convicted after serving years of their life for a crime they did commit somehow makes it okay. They have lost time and pretty much their whole life.
Let’s say John Coffey is convicted of murder. He didn’t so it, but he spends 10 years of his life in prison before being exonerated. He has lost his job and his career. His wife has left him and his children don’t remember him. He is now ten years old and a whole lot more bitter.
How can that be rectified?
If Coffey is bitter, just add sugar.
It really helps if step 1 isn’t “Exhume.”
You may never be able to make an improper conviction “right” or “okay”, but the gap between:
- Releasing someone who didn’t commit murder 10 years after conviction
and
- Executing someone who didn’t commit murder
the gap there is really big. I mean, if I put myself in that guy’s place, and were given a choice of spending 10 years in lockup for something I didn’t do or getting a lethal injection for something I didn’t do, I’m pretty sure I know which one I’d choose.
There’s no real remedy for having lost 10 years of your life in prison, of course, as you describe. The only thing you can do is compensate with lots of money, which is what many states do. Texas, IIRC, compensates the wrongly-convicted with $80,000 per year of unjust imprisonment, which is already among the most generous rates in the United States. I think it ought to be, at the bare minimum, that rate nationwide, or more.
I am not sure what this means. It takes a long time because anti-DP groups file appeals, and that is the fault of pro-DP groups for blocking appeals.
One side stalls, and it is the fault of the other side for trying not to let them stall so much.
If you are just saying “it’s your fault for not giving me what I want”, that is not a worthwhile argument.
Regards,
Shodan
Wrong. The appeals are frequently valid and succeed. The defense is perfectly right to make them.
Your lot are wrong for blocking them.