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[edit] Dead Man Walking

How about a citation backing up the bit about "dead man walking"? Or perhaps just yank it. Even if true, it is hardly one of the most important things to know about death rows. I have heard the expression all my life, but never as a ritual saying for executions. (I grew up in Huntsville, Texas, which at the time had 10,000 non-prisoner residents and the state's only electric chair.) Googling turns up many references to a book-play-movie by that name, and over a half dozen songs with the same title. The only definition I could find was here: http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/dead+man+walking.html

67.126.57.193 23:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


"Death Row" is not unique to the USA. India and Singapore use the term, for example.

Is the 'dead man eating' external link not slightly in bad taste? If you click on the right link from the main page then you'll get some information, but the 'your last meal' section seems a bit sadistic/masochistic/perverse. Just a thought.

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[edit] Waiting

Why do they have to wait for execution so long? Can't they just be killed after judge definitely sentences them and they don't have aby chance?

I think this has to do with the fact that in the U.S. there are so many possibilities which the defendant can take in order to try to get around being executed. You can appeal here, appeal there, make use of writs, ask for clemency there, etc. etc. etc. etc. Of course a person cannot be executed as long as he has not exhausted all of his possibilities to take legal action against his verdict. And that may take many years. In other countries it may be different. In France, for example, there were usually only a few weeks between the verdict and the execution. --Wutzofant 13:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I would be curious to know how long the average wait on Death Row has. In general (including appeals time, etc), as well as how long it takes for a "convenient time" to come up. Say someone gets the sentence and does nothing to fight it--would it still take years for the punishment to take place? --Masamage 01:48, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
From some research I did in high school (but note that this was before the internet and I am Australian, which doesn't have the death penalty) the average time is more than 25 years. Most people die from old age before execution. This is due to endless appeals and protests and various legalities as well as ethics etc. However, people are still on Death Row even after all avenues of appeal are exhausted. From a purely financial point of view, keeping someone alive in prison can cost up to a million dollars per person, per year whilst the cost of execution is a one-off cost (well, for that person anyway). Please don't flood me with comments re ethics etc- Obviously I haven't considered those and this is not an endorsement for or against the Death Penalty. Naysie (my tildes key is broken)

[edit] Proper noun status

I've just reverted a minor change de-capitalising Death Row to bring it in-line with the article title, but upon doing some research I thought I ought to bring the discussion onto the talk page. Department of Corrections sources in the United States seem to disagree on the subject. Arizona and Florida capitalise both words in prose, while Colorado, Texas [1] and North Carolina don't treat it as a proper noun. Merriam-Webster and Answers.com agree with the latter, as do various news sources, including CNN and CBS. Overall, I think consensus seems to be that it's not a proper noun, and so I propose that this page should be moved to Death row. However, I thought I ought to get an opinion or two before moving it. GeeJo (t) (c) • 23:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Definately agree with "death row"--it isn't even generally a formal term, but a widely adopted colloquialism--certainly not a formal proper noun. 71.231.107.188 01:37, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
"death row" seems more appropriate to me.. I guess I never thought of it as a proper noun because it's not like there's one certain death row there are plenty of different ones and it's more of like a list of people not a physical row. just my thoughts GregoryKohler 17:10, 15 June 2007 (PST)
Seconded. Existing "death row" caused a renaming conflict, so I've marked it for speedy deletion, as we seem to have a 100% consensus here. --Kubanczyk (talk) 12:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Done. --Kubanczyk (talk) 14:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] deathrow

hey i got to this page searching for a video game named 'Deathrow' (one word) but the byline doesn't even mention that game, so I have to specifically type in 'Deathrow (game)' to get to the page. i don't know how to add such a byline (for example the "For information about the Record company see Death Row Records" line) so could someone maybe do that? Something like 'For information on the video game, see Deathrow'. thanks :)

here is the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathrow_%28game%29

who really cares about death row anyway. let the people decide you lie the weiner you like the wiener no going back on your word...


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