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Is the long waiting period a necessary condition for capital punishment, or can it be shorted to something more reasonable?


It's a condition of the weird schizophrenic system in the US. There's nothing preventing a system where "I sentence you to death" is said by the judge and the bailiff immediately unholsters a desert eagle and executes.


IIRC the capital punishment is fast if the prisoner does not present court appeals, but most people prefer to try to use all the methods to avoid it.


no it isnt ... thats just stupid to say if u again have no idea what ur talking about. alot of states in us as example have all death penalties on "Hold" it can change every day and after 20 years BAM u get executed and also even if ur "lucky" its often 5+ years ... to say its "fast" is just again ... false


first of all you have to wait until the appeals are trough thats noraml but then alot of states in the us have the killings on hold for decades and then kill a bunch most often when some republicans are back in power. also the MAIN reason is that they are just missing the poison to kill people ... thats also why killing people in the usa is the most inhuman killing in the world, the people get injected by poison but its only created in europe and europe bans all delivieres to the usa as they not support killing of citizens with it. and thats why the usa uses a bunch of other stuff not rly working there was a case a few years ago where the person was struggeling with death screaming for 20+ minutes ... so humane ... so nice




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