Why aren't murderers executed immediately?

proudpreemieparents

Couldn't agree more! Why waste the taxpayers' money to keep them alive in prison??? Makes NO sense to me!!!

hadji from des moines

If you run for office I will vote for you

Anthony

Wooh! Wooh! Relax lady, killing is not the the best solution. If u kill the murderers........r u a murderer also ???? u can't kill the person just like that...BANG! Did anyone consider Y? Y the murderer kill someone?? Y? u or I don't kill people?? There must b a reason.......

The Prez.

Because you conservative reject, they have the right to appeal their conviction, and that process can take years. And besides I would rather see these guys rot in prison, Taking it up the rear from a 6' 8" 350Lbs prisoner for the rest of there life is worse punishment than death. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Amber

I totally agree with you!!!

fbislife2005

the last thing is the kicker, when someone is conviceted it's supposed to be 100% there's no way he didn't do it. Innocnent until proven guilty. There is no "well were not totally sure on this one, we'll just give him life in prision." And of course you have to realize the juries, the judges, and the lawyers have someone's life in their hand. They have to be sure. Then of course after it's all said and done the governor should be reviewing the case leading up to the execution to make sure he doesn't want to stop it.
I think, from an outsider's looking in prespective, the solution is more funding for DNA labs. The lack of DNA tests seems to be the biggest reason trials somtimes are overturned.

CucumberMan II

China executes within 1 hour of guilty verdict. Pretty cool, wouldn't you say?

Tulip

I see what you're getting at, but the problem with capital punishment is that there is a possibility that you may be putting to death the wrong person. Forensic evidence is not entirely conclusive.

The reason why there is a long trial and process is because it gives it time for the convicted murderer to appeal his case.

For example, what happens if you were convicted of a murder you didnt commit, and you were sentenced to death 24 hours right after the event. That wouldn't be just would it? No.

Charles D

There's no way to be sure, to hve it be a proven fact. In the last decade, DNA evidence has exonerated (proven to be innocent) over 100 people on death row. If those persons had been "killed immediately" as you suggest, then we as a country would have executed over 100 innocent people. There's probably alot more innocent persons out there wrongfully on death row as it is. "Life without parole" is a much better sentence.

.45 Peacemaker

Liberals that believe the murderer can be rehabilitated

shortdude42004

Uh cause if you didn't like some on you could frame them and if the gov wanted to get rid of you all they had to do was call you a killer

destine4_69

Murderers are not killed quickly because of the appeal process that was placed in affect by the federal government.....

I agree that if it is a proven fact..then yes..the person should be put to death..

ALTHOUGH...
In the United States..it is written that a person has to be proven guilty only "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"...that is the reason for the appeal process....

eatmorec11h17no3

Life imprisonment without parole is the only option. Murder by the state is still murder, dammit.

Hardez

hail you, but again there's a slim chance he might feel guilty for what he did, and make him suffer for the rest of his life.

Nelson_DeVon

You are absolutely right!!!

rita_alabama

Because a "proven fact" can be disproved. I'm thinking of all the convicted murders scheduled for death row who were exonerated by modern DNA testing, and I shudder to think of how many innocent people died before DNA testing was used. Even people who commit murder deserve a fair trial by their peers...that's one of the reasons the Founding Fathers wrote that into the first laws of this country. Just b/c I am convinced they are guilty does not make it so. And what about the woman who kills her abusive husband because he planned to take her life. Sure, murder is still wrong, and she had other options, but does she deserve to die, too? If you agree that certain exceptions to a mandatory death sentence exist, then where do you draw the line? Who deserves to live and who deserves to die? That's why we leave it up to a jury of our peers and a judge to make those decisions. It's not the most efficient system, but it usually is fair, and it's far more fair than just putting everyone to death.

Stuart

What if you found out fifteen minutes after you killed the killer that you were wrong? Someone else was actually guilty?

Would you just say, 'Oh, well?'

Simmy

First you have to prove they are indeed murderers. Then there is a thing called humanity. Just killing people won't solve the problem. Some murderers aren't afraid of death and want it. Instead try to help them. If that fails then being alive in prison is enough punishment.

Panacea

Because of laws passed by liberal scum. They took the checks and balances of our legal system and amplified them to a ridiculous degree. Add in a large amount of activist judges during the Clinton years and, for awhile, we had a large problem with these people being let out on the street to claim more victims. This is part of the liberal agenda. They think that having violent psychopaths on our streets is just one more step to tearing down our democracy....to be replaced with a marxist Utopia (you know, like the other marxist Utopias in nazi germany, stalin's russia and mao's china....hundreds of millions of people exterminated for basically no reason). That's what they hope to bring here.

Liberals are heinously evil and very dangerous.....to the point of being a hazard to decent folk in their everyday lives.

Ferret

Have you ever asked yourself why you want to kill people

evilprincess

if a murderer receives the death penalty and after the appeals are completed they should be executed within the following week. why keep someone on death row for years knowing they are guilty and the appeals have been exhausted it's a waste of time and taxpayer money.

piggyspam

Due process, as provided by our Constitution. People that have been tried and convicted of a crime have the right to have their cases reviewed by an appellate court.

Jenn

I'm only 13, but I believe a murder should be killed immediately. They don't have the right to live unless they where being attacked themselves and used it against self defence.

markm

In the old west they had a trial and then they hung them from a tall oak tree but in modern times a person who is on death row has many appeals and exhausts all of them this can take years and years for it to work through the system.

murkglider

If the inmates convicted of murder were killed right away, there would be a huge loss in the productivity of the prison labor force.
Starbucks uses prison labor for packaging.
Dell uses prisoners for computer recycling
Boeing, Victoria's Secret, and Eddie Bauer have subcontracted with companies using low-cost prison labor to manufacture everything from aircraft components to lingerie and software packages.

2eighty8

Because there's this thing called "due process" where the accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty. How would you like it if someone accused you of stealing a candy bar with no proof?

There're also different degrees of murder. 1st degree murder can lead to a death sentence, however, manslaughter and (in Canada), criminal negligence causing death only carries a prison sentence. There're also different criminal elements to these different charges of murder.

Meeko

Because people are innocent until proven guilty, and sometimes through the appeals process, wrongly convicted people are proven to be innocent. You seem to have the same taste for death that murderers do.

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