While the Review-Journal continues to report criminal executions in various states, it is noted that the average time between a defendant being sentenced and the execution is 25 years. Sentenced inmates have died while on death row — quite the opposite of how the penalty was administered in centuries past and in certain countries today.

Given this norm in our country regarding death sentences, one must ask: Is it still appropriate? Is a life sentence without possibility of parole now a more suitable sentence for our most violent offenders? Difficult questions that none of the movers and shakers in our legal and legislative systems seem to want to address.

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