February 4, 2008

Why Death Penalty Cases Take Longer

In a January 15th interview with WISH TV, IUPUI Law Professor Joel Schumm discussed a few of the various reasons that death penalty cases take so long to reach trial:

So, viewers are used to seeing Law & Order where things are done in hour. It just can't be done in a death penalty case where there are a lot of times many witnesses; a lot of times there's scientific evidence that has to be looked at...

You can find the video with the rest of his discussion here (must be viewed with Internet Explorer).

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