Would you support instant executions upon sentencing for murder?

Mathematician said:

I'll concede that you could have a serial killer repeatedly plant evidence and get innocent people convicted multiple times. However, I again emphasize analysis of the probabilities of events happening. The chances of that happening pales in comparison to the odds of a true killer getting out and killing again. I've provided links to multiple cases to support my side, including many after the significant advances in forensic science. Let's see your evidence that more people are wrongfully convicted of murder over the last 20 years than the number of second chance murders.

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All you provided were examples of where it can and does happen (which I do not disagree with, and never have), not at what rate/percentage. Your challenge for me to provide percentages and/or rates is a dishonest challenge as 1) it's not the same that you provided, and 2) as these numbers don't exist because nobody takes the time to compile them (according to pretty much everything I have read), for either your point-of-view or mine.

If you need evidence of the numbers of the wrongfully convicted, the Innocence Project would be a good starting point. As of today, 303 exonerations so far... in a time period far shorter than the list(s) you provided.

Three years. Anniversary of sentencing third year, then executed. No delays beyond this. Streamline courts.

Luna Tick said:

The way it is now, a person who gets convicted of murder and sentenced to death spends years on death row going through numerous appeals at cost to the state. What if instead we had the gallows, the electric chair, a firing squad, the gas chamber, or the lethal injection chamber standing by for sentencing? If the murderer is sentenced to death, he or she is immediately taken out for execution. Would you support this policy?

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If guilt could be proven beyond any shadow of doubt whatsoever, yes I would support it in those cases.

murder weapon with prints, dna match, victims blood on the accused clothes or skin.....absolutely

AmericanWoman76 said:

I lost count of how many times a person has been convicted of murder, and then years late, new evidence proved the convicted person was innocent. I can't for the life of me, imagine why anyone would want to kill that many innocent people.

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15.

And few of them were truly "innocent" -- meaning they still had long criminal records, some violent.

Luna Tick said:

The way it is now, a person who gets convicted of murder and sentenced to death spends years on death row going through numerous appeals at cost to the state. What if instead we had the gallows, the electric chair, a firing squad, the gas chamber, or the lethal injection chamber standing by for sentencing? If the murderer is sentenced to death, he or she is immediately taken out for execution. Would you support this policy?

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I voted no but the time required to appeal a death sentence should be cut drastically to a 1 year maximum from what it presently is. There is no excuse for felons waiting 20 years to carry out the sentence.