State reluctance to execute, not inmate appeals, drives death penalty delays

Evidence

The death penalty faces a new constitutional challenge. As previously documented, states that retain the death penalty continue to add condemned inmates to their death rows but execute only a few, if any, of them. As a result, the backlog keeps growing. The inordinate delays in the few executions that do occur are due mainly to states’ aversion to carrying out death sentences rather than to inmate appeals. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2096

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2096
• XREF: connects to: State injustice becomes manageable by delaying accountability until wrongdoers die — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1755