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Waiting and waiting and waiting on the row

By Douglas A. Berman

This morning's USA Today has this piece about the continuing delays between the imposition of death sentences and executions.  Here are excerpts: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. Waits rose from seven years in 1986 to 12 years in 2006, the latest Justice Department statistics show.  In all five states with the most prisoners on death row ? California, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania and Alabama ? offenders spend more time in prison than they did four years ago, a USA TODAY survey of state records through 2007 found. In California, wait times average nearly 20 years, a state commission report in June says...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).