After keeping him in prison for literally half his life, Georgia executed a 72 year old man.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

99. The problem is....

.....if the state moves to execute someone quickly, you create a shorter window for any possible exculpatory evidence to come forward. And in many cases, it has taken years for someone wrongfully convicted to be exonerated. Some people are exonerated post mortem.

On the other hand, even if you think the death penalty is justified, if the process takes three decades, it's barely worth it--even if you think executing someone constitutes "justice" in some form.

It's a fatally (pardon the expression) flawed institution that's worth far more hassles than it's worth. Better we just lock people up and throw away the key. It's not like we're obsessing over the every day prison lives of people sentenced to life for murder. They are forgotten and removed from society, and that works fine for me.