faster is not always better
you might’ve heard but the john allen muhammad, the dc sniper, was executed tuesday night for the death of one of the ten he killed in his 2002 shootings. if you remember learning about the death penalty in high school, you’d remember that one of the arguments against the death penalty is that it actually cost more than housing a prisoner for life because of the lengthy process of trials and appeals before someone is executed. so what happened and why was muhammad executed only 7 years after he was convicted?
seems muhammad was unfortunate enough to be convicted and sentenced in virginia, which has the quickest time from conviction to execution. according to the bureau of justice statistics, it takes on average almost 13 years from sentencing to execution for the convicted. in most states, it takes 2 to 3 years before cases make it through the first level of appeals. in virigina, it typically only takes 1 year. other factors that could’ve held up or stopped the execution were not met with success. appeals were made to the supreme court which despite recognizing the swiftness of the execution, denied to hear his case or delay his execution and the virginia governor who denied clemency.
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