Even in Texas, the champs at the death penalty, it takes 5 years. What was McVeigh, about 2 from arrest to injection? Texas executed George Lott, who killed two people in the Tarrant County Courthouse in 1991, in 1995. Three-and-one-half years. He refused to appeal his conviction.
McVeigh was arrested in 1995, convicted in 1997, and executed in 2001.
A model for how death penalty cases should be handled everywhere.
Well said . . . from a fellow Texan. I see no point in having the death penalty if the states . . . or the federal government in this case . . . don't have the courage to carry it out.