Title: What does gubernatorial moratoria mean, regarding the death penalty? - Quora
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What does gubernatorial moratoria mean, regarding the death penalty?
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When people get sentenced to the death penalty, why does it take so many years (sometimes decades) before the penalty is carried out? Originally Answered: Why does it take so long to serve a death penalty after the person has been sentenced? Because the seriousness of that sentence requires that those who administer such a brutal punishment take the entire process leading up to conviction and sentencing into consideration with specific regard to whether or not any constitutional violations occurred that could have affected the outcome of those proceedings. It’s called the post trial appeal and because it was long ago decided that the 6th Amendment requires that the state provide a convicted person with an appellate attorney and with one appeal following conviction, they now do so automatically. Following the trial and conviction yo
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Because the seriousness of that sentence requires that those who administer such a brutal punishment take the entire process leading up to conviction and sentencing into consideration with specific regard to whether or not any constitutional violations occurred that could have affected the outcome of those proceedings. It’s called the post trial appeal and because it was long ago decided that the 6th Amendment requires that the state provide a convicted person with an appellate attorney and with one appeal following conviction, they now do so automatically. Following the trial and conviction your appellate attorney comes to see you; he should have already reviewed your transcripts and have some ideas about which issues could and should be raised in your appeal but the reality is that he or she probably just skimmed them in a very surface way the day before he visited you and doesn’t have any idea what issues will be raised. Anyway, he’s supposed to determine first if there were any errors in sentencing and, next, he should try to determine whether or not there were any constitutional violations in your case.