<p>gsp<em>silidon</em>valley:</p>
<p>There's a reason that people convicted and given the death penalty are not executed within one year. That is because they have the right to appeal, etc. This, btw, is very important, because in case you haven't noticed, innocent people are convicted and relesed pretty much every year. And don't give me any of that "well thats the cost of doing business" garbage that people like to dish out. The goal, when the laws were written, was that it would be better to let 9 guilty people go free than to let one innocent person be convicted. This simply isn't happening. If I wasn't morally opposed to capital punishment, I might agree to your "one year" thing ASSUMING that the people convicted were guilty 100% of the time, the racial bias agains african americans and other minorities was eliminated (and don't even TRY to argue that this doesn't exist), and the bias against the poor who can't afford good laywers didn't exist. In the state that it is in right now, it would be RIDICULOUS to hasten the already flawed judicial process.</p>