Tennessee Death Row Facts

It is totally ridiculous that these animals sit around on death row. It only takes a couple of years to do a trial- why must it take so long to hear the appeals? Ridiculous. They've been tried. found guilty. sentenced to death. Get it over with for God's sake and get rid of these rabid animals.. quit warehousing them. ANd, what's with the idiot that's been sitting around for years there? Geez...

when i lived in texas, they were emptying out cells on death row just about two-three times a week.

sometimes even two in one night !!!

the appellate process was put on the fast track.
and then it was off to the death chamber.

an appeal should be filed monday morning, reviewed by the judge who presided over the case.
then ruled on that very day.

then off to "the chamber" by the end of the week.

it serves no purpose to anyone to let it linger any longer than that.

Your from Texas, ha! We all know what comes from Texas. Shut up you old queen.

I'm glad Davidson got the ultimate penalty. He deserved it if no one else did. His piece of shiite bastard brother Cobbins did, too.
But Tennessee seems to be as liberal as California when it comes to throwing out the trash and "flushing the shiite of humanity" to hell where it belongs. What these "animals" did to these kids was dispicable beyond description. And I hope that the other two get the same verdict.

When all the evidence along with jurors decision of guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt imposes the death penalty, the convicted should not live more than 24 hours. There should be no appeal when the evidence and decision is overwhelming.

This is the US of A.... where the criminal is given every chance that someone can dig up.

I have always thought that after the pronouncement of the death sentance that the cheapest and best solution would be to simply take the condemned man or woman out back and shoot them behind the court house. Then make their family come and clean up the mess.

I dont know why we have such a f*cked up society that says we must let him sit in jail for 20 years while everyone and their brother fiqures out a way to overturn the decision of the courts.

Think of how much nicer this country would be with all those extra tax dollars floating around. We could probably make sure that all our kids have plenty to eat and have warm clothes during the winter....we could also provide kids with a decent education...

Id hate to think of how much money is wasted keeping these monsters in food and warm clothing when a 50 cent bullet would help so many disadvantged people.

You kill a killer and all that money that goes for his appeals and his room and board and healthcare can be put back into the poor communities....helping those kids so that maybe they can grow up with some ambition to become something instead of a drug dealer or a thug....

Sankofa wrote:

This is the US of A.... where the criminal is given every chance that someone can dig up.
I have always thought that after the pronouncement of the death sentance that the cheapest and best solution would be to simply take the condemned man or woman out back and shoot them behind the court house. Then make their family come and clean up the mess.
I dont know why we have such a f*cked up society that says we must let him sit in jail for 20 years while everyone and their brother fiqures out a way to overturn the decision of the courts.
Think of how much nicer this country would be with all those extra tax dollars floating around. We could probably make sure that all our kids have plenty to eat and have warm clothes during the winter....we could also provide kids with a decent education...
Id hate to think of how much money is wasted keeping these monsters in food and warm clothing when a 50 cent bullet would help so many disadvantged people.
You kill a killer and all that money that goes for his appeals and his room and board and healthcare can be put back into the poor communities....helping those kids so that maybe they can grow up with some ambition to become something instead of a drug dealer or a thug....

Well Put!!!!!!

I've long been a proponent of getting our prison stats down and providing the DP to a LOT of folks...These life in prison sentences are b.s. Charles Manson and his little followers come to mind.. what a ridiculous waste of taxpayers money to warehouse him and other cretins like him.

sarafina wrote:

Your from Texas, ha! We all know what comes from Texas. Shut up you old queen.

I am telling yore mama on you,tomorrow is school day,git yore spongebob p j's on and get in the bed.

60 Gunner wrote:

<quoted text>Well Put!!!!!!

Right on,Bro,the justice system needs some serious overhauling!!!!!1

Because of the lengthy appeals process and the like, the cost of executing a person is much, much higher than keeping them in jail for life. Until this is fixed, I'm against the death penalty. That, and the growing number of cases that have been later reversed because of DNA evidence and the like that have exonerated people -unfortunately after they've been killed sometimes. I'd feel better about it if the system was proving MORE guilty rather than less guilt.

LeftrHander wrote:

Because of the lengthy appeals process and the like, the cost of executing a person is much, much higher than keeping them in jail for life. Until this is fixed, I'm against the death penalty.

I'm confused. Please explain how executing someone is more expensive than housing them for life.

justhangin wrote:

<quoted text> I'm confused. Please explain how executing someone is more expensive than housing them for life.

It's a balancing act between the cost of a death penalty prosecution/defense vs. one seeking life without parole, the cost of imprisoning a convict for life, and the cost of appeals. What follows is an excerpt from a KNS article.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/oct/30/help...

In a bit of Knox County judicial history, Judge Richard Baumgartner informed jurors about a 2004 study by the state Comptroller's Office that he said showed "the economic costs of imposing the death penalty is more expensive than imprisoning somebody for life without parole."

That statement came after Davidson's defenders sought to put on proof about the economic costs of imposing death. The state balked, and the judge said his statement to jurors represented a compromise.

However, the study at issue weighed the cost of a death penalty trial versus a trial at which life without parole is being sought. It concluded a capital murder trial costs roughly $15,000 more.

That same study concluded executions actually save taxpayers more than $770,000 in housing expenses compared to the costs of housing someone for the rest of their lives.

Whether the difference in what the judge told jurors and the Comptroller's Office's own explanation of its findings could one day become an appeal issue may hinge on what Baumgartner next told jurors.

"The economic costs should have no bearing on your decision in this case," he told the panel.