Title: Why does it take so long to execute someone on death row? - Quora
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Why does it take so long to execute someone on death row?
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Content: The reason death penalties are so expensive is because most defendants can not afford all of the attorneys so they have to be paid for by the state. It costs a lot of money for the state to kill someone to show others that it is wrong to kill someone. Susan Schindler
, works at City University of New York
Answered 3 years ago · Author has 1.1K answers and 399.8K answer views
The idea is to avoid executing innocent people. The system can make tragic and irreversible mistakes. DNA is rarely available in homicides, often irrelevant and can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. Capital juries are dominated by people who favor the death penalty and are more likely to convict. So far, there are 161 known cases where wrongly convicted people were sentenced to death. They were eventually exonerated and released from death row after an average of 11.3 years. If the process was faster, many of them would now be dead. The list continues to grow- even since DNA technol
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The idea is to avoid executing innocent people.