# Dylann Roof found guilty - rot in hell **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 15, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylann-roof-found-guilty-rot-in-hell/774814 "2016-12-15T21:39:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 96
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylann-roof-found-guilty-rot-in-hell/774814/96 "2017-01-11T16:04:56Z")
And, can you guarantee that in the approximately 15 years Roof will spend on death row, he won’t kill anyone? From the wiki article on [Death Row](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_row) > [@](#): > > In the United States, prisoners may wait many years before execution can be carried out due to the complex and time-consuming appeals procedures mandated in the jurisdiction. The time between sentencing and execution has increased relatively steadily between 1977 and 2010, including a 22% jump between 1989 and 1990 and a similar jump between 2008 and 2009. In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (roughly 15 years) between sentencing and execution.[1] **Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution.** [2] So it’s a death sentence, but for a quarter of the people sentenced to death, it’s life in prison without parole. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dylann-roof-found-guilty-rot-in-hell/774814)._