Slow Pace of Executions Moves States To Dump or Reform Death Penalty
Some are "streamlining" appeals to fast-track state killings
Supporters and opponents of capital punishment agree: The current death penalty is expensive, inefficient, and arbitrary. Some state legislatures have reacted to those faults by abolishing the death penalty, while others are trying to speed it up.
Since 2007, six states have abolished capital punishment—most recently Maryland, which did so this year. But other states, troubled by some of the same problems, have moved in the opposite direction.
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Let Jonas Candide send them to the Fields of Ambrosia.
See The Travelling Executioner (1970)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYA9CDHRE_Y