WHY ISNT THE JOKER EXECUTED?

@dondave: seriously wow what a plot device

"Whoops. My gun slipped."

The cop who does that will get elevated to godhood in Gotham.

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.

All the Robins are figments of Batman's imagination too, all representing what he could have been.

Basically this.

Completely agree. But at least this thread is fair enough.

Well almost everything in comics is unrealistic but I agree.

They tried it once, it didn't take.

The Joker got the electric chair but was somehow able to use a a serum to be brought back to life, which gave him a legal clean slate. Oh the Golden Age.

A better question would be why hasn't the Joker been executed. You know, because it utilizes proper grammar.

You mean be?

He's in an asylum, not in jail. So he's probably considered not responsible for his actions.

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.

@night4345 said:

It had to be done say what you will about injustice supes, but this made me clap him.

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.

Cuz plot

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?

the only real reason.

lol

Most Likely reason Gotham does not have death penalty

Bat-Mite doesn't want the Joker to die. If his game ends, WE ALL END.

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.

1) PLOT top reason.

2)he's the opp to Batman in every aspect of personality. if he goes down there's none to replace him as of now.

3)Corruption in Gotham.

4)can lead to an outrage by fans.

In real life and in comics, his lawyers plead insanity. That's why he goes to a insane Asylum, duh,

>Trying to ascribe real-world logic to superhero comics.

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.

Because people keep buying stuff with him in it.

Gotham has abolished death penalty.

its simple im his father

I'm honestly surprise Joker never pissed off a cop/guard enough that they decide to kill him.