Weekly Crime Poll: Death Penalty Appeals Process
Friday October 30, 2009
Billy Joe Johnson is a white supremacist gangster who was convicted to 45 years in prison for murdering a man, but then later confessed to two more murders and asked for the death penalty. Was Johnson seeking redemption for his crimes? Apparently not, but rather to do his time on death row which he believes will offer him amenities he is currently without.Also, as his attorney says, Johnson figures by the time the appeal process runs out he'll be 65 or older and will not want to live anyway.
Poll: Does the appeals process for death row inmates take too long?
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Comments
For justice to have any meaning trials must be fair and without undue delay. Penalties must be sure and swift.
What our criminal justice system has become is a joke that benefits only criminals and trial attorneys……or am I repeating myself?
LeSpot says “penalties must be sure and swift”. This sounds like summary justice like they have in China!
No, A.W., actually it sounds like America about 60 years ago
Well…they still had lynchings down south- less than 60 yrs ago, didn’t they?