cledus1911 t1_jd4yins wrote on March 21, 2023 at 9:31 PM

Reply to comment by Jamber_Jamber in TIL the term "death row" comes from an assassination attempt on FDR. The shooter Giuseppe Zangara was sentenced to death, but there was already a convict awaiting execution, and FL law forbade them from sharing cells. A second cell was built, turning the "death cell" into the first "death row." by AdmiralAkbar1

I’m not, until relatively recently if you got a death sentence you got taken out and hanged, or taken out back for the firing squad. It wasn’t a months or years long process like it is now

nimitzhunter t1_jd5mbe7 wrote on March 22, 2023 at 12:14 AM

Death rows is more like decades now.

SocialWinker t1_jd5x0wu wrote on March 22, 2023 at 1:33 AM

> The average time between sentencing and execution has increased by two-thirds in the past 20 years — from 11.4 years in 2000 to 18.9 years in 2020, according to the most recent available data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

The longest was 38 years, as of his execution in 2018.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1097184110/death-row-inmates-execution-time

Archduke_Of_Beer t1_jd5uyls wrote on March 22, 2023 at 1:18 AM

Plus on top of that, until recently there were very few FEDERAL crimes that were prosecuted with the death penalty in mind. The FBI was still in it's infancy at this time.

Mostly it was up to the states to kill you unless you killed a federal politician or committed treason.