Problem: Can you please provide an opinion statement on the below question:
Is it possible that the insignificant effects of the death penalty on murder rates is a function in the legal delays that prolong the sentence from being carried out, leaving killers in death row for many years, even decades, before they are executed? Would you recommend that the process be accelerated and executions carried out soon after guilt is established? Or is there a real purpose to delaying executions so that people on death row can exercise every avenue of appeal, making sure an innocent person is not wrongfully executed?