No kidding. This should have been reviewed over the last 30 years or more. Not 1 hour before the fucking execution is set to take place. How was that not cruel and unusual punishment?
There are two reasons. First, people suck. Most would rather not make a decision until they have to. Second, I’m sure there has been pressure to get the death sentence commuted for years, if not decades. Part of that is because the process is slow and part is because political elements often try to make the decision with the most political benefit. The added publicity with this looming deadline would have brought attention and the powers that be have doubtless decided that at this point the political weight is in favor of saying yes rather than no.
I’m not sure why the court has decided this now rather than at some time during the preceding decades that she spent on death row.
No kidding. This should have been reviewed over the last 30 years or more. Not 1 hour before the fucking execution is set to take place. How was that not cruel and unusual punishment?
There are two reasons. First, people suck. Most would rather not make a decision until they have to. Second, I’m sure there has been pressure to get the death sentence commuted for years, if not decades. Part of that is because the process is slow and part is because political elements often try to make the decision with the most political benefit. The added publicity with this looming deadline would have brought attention and the powers that be have doubtless decided that at this point the political weight is in favor of saying yes rather than no.