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Originally Posted by James K
I have long advocated the shortest possible time between arrest and prison time.
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On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan (the President of the United States), Thomas Delahanty, Timothy McCarthy, and James Brady in front of a mass of witnesses and recording equipment. He was apprehended immediately.
On April 27, 1982, more than a year after the fact, jury selection began.
On October 6, 1981, Anwar Sadat (the President of Egypt) and 11 others were assassinated, plus over two dozen were wounded.
On April 15, 1982, the assassins of Anwar Sadat were publicly executed in Cairo.
Although Sadat was shot 190 days after Reagan, his assassins were tried, convicted, sentenced, and executed, 15 days before Hinckley even came to trial.