Crimes that can get a person sentenced to death row and death include treason, espionage, murder, large-scale drug trafficking, or attempted murder of a witness, juror, or court officer in certain cases.
Murder is the most common crime that gets a person on death row although sometimes it takes more than one person being murdered by someone to get death row in some places.
For example a mass murder such as a mass shooting can get someone put on death row and sentenced to death.
Although there have been some people put on death row for one murder so it can vary.
People on death row may sit on death row for 10 years, 15, years, 20 years and sometimes longer until the execution is carried out.
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.
In the United States, prisoners may wait many years before execution can be carried out due to the complex and time-consuming appeals procedures mandated in the jurisdiction.
A removal from death row takes place if the capital sentence is declared unconstitutional by the state court or the U.S. Supreme Court, the conviction is affirmed but the sentence is overturned by the appellate court, the conviction and sentence are overturned by the appellate court, or the sentence of the prisoner.
Between showering, exercise, routine checks, and the occasional visitor, death row inmates receive an average of one hour out of their cell per day. Unless they're in their cell, showering, or in the prison exercise yard, they always have handcuffs on.
Scheduling the execution for 12:01 a.m. gives the state as much time as possible to deal with last-minute legal appeals and temporary stays, which have a way of eating up time.
Another advantage is that the rest of the inmates are locked down and, presumably, asleep.