We would like you to assess the QUALITY of each of the following argument (discussing Death Penalty) and determine if the argument is Valid or Invalid. A valid argument is clearly interpretable and either expresses an argument, or a premise or a conclusion that can be used in an argument for the topic of death penalty. An invalid argument is a phrase that cannot be interpreted as an argument or not on the topic of death penalty.

I believe it takes an average of nearly twenty years from the time a scumbag is sentenced to death until the time the sentence is carried out with all the various legal appeals in most states.
Valid

This process is needed in order to ensure that innocent men and woman are not executed for crimes they did not commit, and even with these protections the risk of executing an innocent person can not be completely eliminated.
Valid

What Old Testament part from your last post did I ignore?

Invalid