Saying that there were 14,196 homicides in 2013, but only 39 executions isn’t helpful.
The average time before a death row inmate is executed is around 16 years.
That complicates the equation a lot!
Except for Timothy McVeigh.
At his trial in 1997, a Denver jury found him guilty of conspiracy and murder, and he was sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection in 2001. Someone was in a big hurry to get rid of him?