About 30 criminals a year are sentenced to death, but only one criminal a year is actually executed. The backlog is getting larger and larger and the wait is getting longer and longer. More prisoners die in California from old age than from execution.
The average wait for execution in the state is 17.2 years, twice the national figure. And the backlog is likely to grow, considering the trend: Thirty people have been on death row for more than 25 years, 119 for more than 20 years and 408 for more than a decade.
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