Because death penalty cases are special in that they get automatic appeals.
Case in point Gregory Sturm.
Fucking EDWARD PATRICK MORGAN is still alive too.
I wonder how many times are people exonerated by these appeals versus how many times are they exonerated after their executions. It all sounds like a big waste of time to me. I'm not saying by any means that they always get the right guy, but I am saying the appeals process doesn't seem to do a lot to actually right that. Instead, it seems to find a lot of technical reasons to commute a sentence to life. Which is a lot of extra steps. I'm pro death penalty, but the implementation we have is dumb.
The problem with the death penalty isn't the death penalty, it's lying cops and crooked prosecutors and judges.
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