Death Row

[ferlew]

Trevor MacDonald, ITV.
Been watching these, and I wondered, some can spend 50 plus years on death row, why do they have to stay that long under sentence of death?
Wouldn't it be fairer to carry out the Death sentence withing a shorter time?

[Tilly2]

Wouldn't it be fairer to carry out the Death sentence withing a shorter time?

writhing? As some do?

[ferlew]

Oh dear..... "within".

[Tilly2]

:-)

[angie55]

I think it's a typo by the OP and should be "within a shorter time".

[Tilly2]

Yes, angie. I know.

[bookbinder]

I believe that a lot of time is taken up with appeals against sentences. They tend to drag on.

[EDDIE51]

The appeal process can take many years over 20 years is not unknown.

[ferlew]

Yet there is still death at the end of it?
It seems such a waste.

[hc4361]

Hugely expensive, too. Believe it or not, the death penalty is far more expensive than a life sentence

[T&S]

Maybe if the UK had such as process, this fella may have been released:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Him_Have_It

[DaisyNonna]

Waste? It was the victim's life that was wasted

[ferlew]

I don't dispute that Daisynonna, of course that is a waste.
But throwing hundreds of thousand of dollars/pounds at it won't bring the victim back.
I'm thinking along lines of so many months to wait for an appeal, then carry out the original sentence, not sticking up for the accused.

[ferlew]

I mean, I wasn't sticking up for the accused.

[hc4361]

Killing the murderer doesn't bring the victim back either. I will never agree with the death penalty for various reasons.

[Zacs-Master]

I think your getting confused. The prisoners who were doing 50+ years were not on death row. One guy said he was eligible for parole in 2040.

[tonyav]

Are these repeats, ferlew ?.

[ferlew]

I'm not sure Tonyav,
ZM, TMc constantly referred to it as Death Row, he only mentioned that one accused would be eligible for parole/release in 2040.

[Zacs-Master]

There is only one part of the prison which is death row. They've either been sentenced to death or been given a term.

[ferlew]

Well, as the prog is predominately about Death Row, including showing the death gurney...I'm not sure I am confused.
I'll watch it again on catch-up, to make sure.

[naomi24]

If this is the same programme I watched some time ago, the prisoners on death row have been sentenced to death, but the date of their execution has not been decided and some of them are there for years. According to Wiki the longest serving prisoner on death row was Gary Alvord who remained there for 43 years until he died in 2013 of a brain tumour.