Clearing the death-row backlog would require executions daily for years.

Evidence

Because of the huge backlog of over 3,000 prisoners awaiting execution, society would have the ghastly task to execute them daily over a long period to deplete their numbers or do it faster by staging mass daily executions. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2071

Categorization

  • CANDY: A striking arithmetic demonstration of why the death penalty is functionally unenforceable as written.