Because he is insane so he goes to the insane asylum (arkham asylum)
WHY ISNT THE JOKER EXECUTED?
Its because Joker isn't actually real, nor has he ever been. The Joker is a figment of Batman's imagination, a coping mechanism he developed to give his life purpose and structure. Arkham Asylum isn't real either, its just a term Batman's subconscious refers to itself as. A place the Joker can go when Batman starts to realize that he might not be real and so needs a psychological time out before reinventing a new Joker.
So you can't kill what isn't real. Well… unless Batman gets a great psychologist.
Its because Joker isn't actually real, nor has he ever been. The Joker is a figment of Batman's imagination, a coping mechanism he developed to give his life purpose and structure. Arkham Asylum isn't real either, its just a term Batman's subconscious refers to itself as. A place the Joker can go when Batman starts to realize that he might not be real and so needs a psychological time out before reinventing a new Joker.
So you can't kill what isn't real. Well… unless Batman gets a great psychologist.
@dondave: seriously wow what a plot device
five reasons, take your pick
1. Insanity plea. most places make it illegal to execute someone who is mentally not all there. The mere fact that he always goes straight to Arkham without a trial is a pretty good indicator that he is ineligible for prison, and certainly execution
2. Gotham has abolished the Death Penalty. this makes even more sense, because not only is Arkham filled to the brim, but Blackgate Prison too, some of these prisoners are pretty violent customers, so it leaves us to question why they all escaped execution so readily unless the Death Penalty is abolished.
3. other legal red tape. there is a lot of jargon and other red tape detailing who can and can't be executed, and for which crimes, the same crimes and trial that got you executed in one state might not have been able to in another death row state. furthermore Joker could be a master at forcing the judge to throw the whole trial out because of other red tape, monkeying with evidence, forcing cops to act in a way to make the trial a farce, or maybe even ensuring that the evidence doesn't exist at all.
4. Gotham is corrupt nuff said.
5. Joker hasn't waited long enough to be executed. Executions usually take a long time to occur, the trial itself could take years or a decade in rare cases, but once its complete and you are sentenced to death row that can take even longer to occur, the speediest stay I can recall on death row (recently) was 6 years, the news was shocked at how fast it occured. but stays on death row could last 20- 30 years or longer before it finally occurs. It could well be that he is in fact serving his death row, but constant escapes force it back further and further as they keep having to reorganize. It could well be that if someone in the real world escaped every couple months stay in prison and constantly adds more crimes they courts would constantly have to readdress the whole situation, especially if some misguided politician is seeking a vote by coloring The Joker as a victim of the ineffective court system, Joker could perhaps stay indefinitely on death row, maybe even making his the longest stay on death row ever.
Its because Joker isn't actually real, nor has he ever been. The Joker is a figment of Batman's imagination, a coping mechanism he developed to give his life purpose and structure. Arkham Asylum isn't real either, its just a term Batman's subconscious refers to itself as. A place the Joker can go when Batman starts to realize that he might not be real and so needs a psychological time out before reinventing a new Joker.
So you can't kill what isn't real. Well… unless Batman gets a great psychologist.
So who killed Jason then? Was it Bruce dressed up as Joker all along?
All the Robins are figments of Batman's imagination too, all representing what he could have been.
Plot.
Basically this.
The same reason no one else is.
I don't get why people specifically single out Batman for this stuff.
Completely agree. But at least this thread is fair enough.
@jonsmith: If we're applying some real-world "justice system mechanics" to this, I would say the constant escapes are unrealistic too (for any comic villain). (Like I said earlier, there are "criminal geniuses" who are securely locked away in US prisons, and if a witness is important enough, they'll get protected & the testimony will be carried out). If we're getting realistic, no non-powered person would realistically be capable of pulling off all the evil-acts Joker has (ie: the civilian good-guys aren't THAT incompetent).
Well almost everything in comics is unrealistic but I agree.
A better question would be why hasn't the Joker been executed. You know, because it utilizes proper grammar.
Meta Reason: Because he sells
In Universe Reason: Because Gotham's law system is run by idiots.
Also, Batman is a coward and is unwilling to take the moral high ground for the large questions, and entrusts the super villains he captures to an inefficient and ineffective justice system that has proven repeatedly that they don't have the capability to deal with those villains.
It had to be done say what you will about injustice supes, but this made me clap him.
Meta Reason: Because he sells
In Universe Reason: Because Gotham's law system is run by idiots.
Also, Batman is a coward and is unwilling to take the moral high ground for the large questions, and entrusts the super villains he captures to an inefficient and ineffective justice system that has proven repeatedly that they don't have the capability to deal with those villains.
By that logic all the heroes that don't kill are cowards. Even the ones who kill can be considered coward since in both Marvel and DC most of worse villains aren't dead.
@rustyroy: ...Oh. Yes, I do.
There's a lesson here- don't correct other peoples' grammar on three hours of sleep.
If he were sentenced to such a punishment, he'd escape before it was carried out. Remember in "Last Laugh" when he broke out of the Slab?
Because DC would lose money.
the only real reason.
The same reason no one else is.
I don't get why people specifically single out Batman for this stuff.
Because Batman typically has the most dangerous non-powered foes.
@lesterlawton: Personally The Joker would kill the The Punisher before The Punisher had the chance to kill him.
Am I the only one who thinks Joker can and does evade death whenever anything but Batman tries to kill him? He broke out of a maximum-security prison that nobody had ever broken out of in like 5 minutes.
simple question why is he always sent to arkham asylum instead of going to the electric chair for all his crimes
its simple im his father
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