How do you feel about death row inmates getting better medical treatment than you?
I think the broken part of the system is the endless appeals cycle. The fact that someone on death row actually has a smaller annual chance of dying than the average inner city youth (I got that tidbit from Freakonomics if I remember correctly) seems wasteful to me. But at the same time, we’re not running the Tower of London here. I think, in a perfect world, we would establish a system with a limited set of appeals or appeal conditions (really new evidence not “judge roulette”) and when a case is beyond a shadow of a doubt, the swiftest possible justice should be applied. As long as you’re under the shadow of doubt though, we need to treat incarcerated citizens with full human dignity.
