> Put down exactly what the percentage is. That statement makes no sense at all! There have been proven cases (headlines about people freed from death row more

> Put down exactly what the percentage is. That statement makes no sense at all! There have been proven cases (headlines about people freed from death row more than once in the last few years; and no, that's not a sign that "the system works", quite the opposite), so there is no question that they exist. Asking the obviously impossible and completely unconnected question "how many exactly" makes no sense, what would that achieve, even if it were possible? One person is one person too many! I am all for weighing risk or cost vs. benefit, but what would be the benefit of killing people, apart from "revenge feeling"? Also paart from costs, because the death penalty AFAIK is very costly to the US taxpayer and I've read actually more expensive than life in prison. So zero benefit against killing even one innocent person. I'm not even someone who is dead set against killing.