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Prisoners' time spent on death row doubles

By Michael Blankenship

The time prisoners spend on death row has nearly doubled during the past two decades. Legal experts predict it will rise further as states review execution procedures and prisoners pursue lengthy appeals.Read more...Why is it taking longer to carry out executions? Wasn't the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act supposed to speed up the execution process? I cannot be sufficiently sarcastic to such a non-rhetorical question.While the blame for the increase in time on death row can be spread across a wide array of reasons, perhaps the overall explanation lies in the fact that the U.S. penchant for executions is diminishing. While there has been a spate of recent executions in the former Confederate states such as Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina, most states have not conducted an execution or, like Idaho, have only conducted one or two inmates...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).