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On your advice, I poked around on the death penalty wikipedia page and found something I've been wondering about for a while: volunteers for the death penalty! I wondered if it was possible, never knew it had actually already been done by multiple people.
Something curious about that, too, though: the first execution after the reinstatement was Gary Gilmore, and it was a year after he was convicted. But the other examples on that volunteer page take close to a decade to get executed, if they ever get executed at all. That's for people that have waived their right to appeal and are just trying to get a speedy execution. My new thinking is that the legal system is like some old processor that used to be speedy but is now limping from decades of use. Of course, lawyers figuring out the best ways to game the system probably also contribute to death row appeals processes taking forever.
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