I think if you go to another country and commit a terrible act, they treat you like a criminal, they just don't drag it out very long before your punished like we do here. We have a problem here, we turn it into gobs of money being generated to government officials by tax payers, we mix in a little PC for the feel good people, and generate gobs more money for the media outlets. Anything we can do to spice it up, such as arguments over how we try the case, is just so much better for business.
We do have our priorities you know. A fast and speedy trial is not one of them. We have to milk as much money as we can from the 50% who pay taxes. Drag it out as long as we can. If any one of us did this in another country, it would have been over by now.
We are not good at much here any more...too many hands in the cookie jar.