When should clemency be granted for death row inmates?

Executions should be broadcast live!!! That is the only way this will ever stop!

There should be no death penalty. America has turned into a bunch of bloody thirsty maniacs. It makes me sick.

Got to love how Virgina scheduled this when the Iranian dictator was here, since the entire world is criticizing them for wanting to stone and or hang a women!

Perhaps they should tell Iran to send her over here, the Governor of Virgina would love to gut her for him!

Within the first year of the sentence, or not at all. ( Barring some MAJOR new evidence. ) Either society should be able to "execute" sentences quickly,..economically,....and efficiently, or it should just give it up. Something is REALLY WRONG with a process that makes it cheaper to imprison a man for life, than to put him down.

I think LIFE sentences are actually the less humane call myself. I would however execute people by slow heroine overdose, and perhaps even let the individual administer it themselves if they so desired,.this medieval ritualistic execution system we use now is pointless,....accept to satisfy some twisted "revenge" impulse. All we should want to achieve from executions,....is a PERMANENT removal of the perp, not "catharsis".

Putting people to death is a barbaric practice that should be outlawed...It doesn't prevent murder, and they find too many innocent people on death row. ..Executing one innocent victim is too much..

When evidence is based purely on circumstantial evidence and reports that are written to fit the crime not report the facts!!!

Of course she's not going to get clemency.
An IQ of 72 is pretty bad, but not quite retarded.
Apparently she can't be that retarded if she planned her husband and stepson's murder to collect insurance.
She needs an official diagnosis from a psychologist- and she's not going to get it.

On the decisions made by the supreme court and McDonnell, Lewis's lawyer, James E Rocap said that "a good and decent person is about to lose her life because of a system that is broken".

wtf. "Good and decent" people don't hire men to kill their husbands so they can collect insurance money...

that depends on the crime...if someone with 72 iq makes an honest mistake then no, some people need guidance, but if someone with an iq of 36 starts a war in a foriegn country over oil then yes....