I agree we should not be executing anyone who plausibly might be guilty. Absolutely no one wants that. There are a ton of murders where the culprit is not in doubt.
How many murders occur in the US per year? About 20 thousand.
How many people are executed in the US each year? Over the last 3 years that number was between 11 and 23 per year.
You if you commit a murder in the US, your chance of being executed for it is about 1/1000. I’d like to think the rarity with which it comes to fruition suggests that killing innocent people is tremendously rare, like winning the lottery rare.
Public sentiment about capital punishment is changing. The death penalty isn’t handed out like it used to be. Many are sentenced to death but it never happens. Through appeals, having their sentences commuted or dying in prison for other reason, they are not executed. It strikes me that the guilty are given every single benefit of the doubt.
Notice the scale of the y axis in these two graphs:
Im not convinced the state executing innocent people happens any longer. In the past? Sure. Now? I have my doubts.
The Waukesha Christmas parade mass murder, the Buffalo racist super market murderer….. does anyone think they are innocent? The Buffalo kid admits to the murder.
I like that capital punishment is on the table for guys like this. Similarly the guys who drag little girls into the woods, rape and murder them and their DNA is found on the corpse. Are they plausibly innocent?
If we’re gonna kill 20 people per year on average, we can find that number who deserve it and who there is 0.00% doubt they are guilty.
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Thinking more about the Execution should be the same as the Murder, 100+ stab wounds? Guess what you get,Shot someone in the head? Guess what you win 
