jazzeum
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Carlos, I'm not a criminal lawyer either but I'm sure that his lawyers hope that they can have the sentence reduced to life. The Times article noted the following:
"With death sentences, an appeal is all but inevitable, and the process generally takes years if not decades to play out. Of the 80 federal defendants sentenced to death since 1988, only three, including Timothy J. McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, have been executed. Most cases are still tied up in appeal. In the rest, the sentences were vacated or the defendants died or committed suicide.
The federal government has also effectively imposed a moratorium on executions while the Justice Department examines issues surrounding the drug cocktail commonly used for lethal injection."
In other words, who knows?
Brad
"With death sentences, an appeal is all but inevitable, and the process generally takes years if not decades to play out. Of the 80 federal defendants sentenced to death since 1988, only three, including Timothy J. McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, have been executed. Most cases are still tied up in appeal. In the rest, the sentences were vacated or the defendants died or committed suicide.
The federal government has also effectively imposed a moratorium on executions while the Justice Department examines issues surrounding the drug cocktail commonly used for lethal injection."
In other words, who knows?
Brad
