Title: Why does it take so long to execute someone on death row? - Quora
Headings: Why does it take so long to execute someone on death row?
Why does it take so long to execute someone on death row?
Jamie Scoverski
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Content: Your appellate attorney will be provided with copies of the court record as well. Then your attorney has to review those materials and decide what issues are the basis for the appeal. Most likely we are covering another year to 18 months. Once the appellate court receives the briefs from your attorney and the states attorney and it is put on their docket to review the case for factual or sentencing errors. It may take another year for the appeals court justices to review the case, meet on the various cases and write opinions. If they up hold the appeal they can send it back to the trial court for a new trial or sentencing . If the deny the appeal a capital case is automatically appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court to review. Your appellant attorney may redo the appeal and address the issues denied by the the court of appeals and/or point out errors made. Here again is another lengthy waiting process while your attorney and the state's attorney research, write and submit new briefs. Then there is the time for the court to put the case on their docket, review and argue the case, and decide it and write their opinions.