I see no difference here in NY since they repealed the death penalty, mostly because they never used it to begin with. What's the point of having it if you're never going to actually put someone to death? What's the point of keeping someone like Charles Manson alive all these years? He's beyond redemption, he's never going to contribute anything positive to society again, so why have the taxpayers of CA paid all these years to keep him in jail?
I assume you're not saying Manson should have been released.
The entire system to be redone. If you commit 1st degree murder, you need to be put to death. In the states that allow it anyway. 1 appeal is fine but not sitting on death row for 20 years.
