Illinois has the highest number of historical wrongful executions (abolished in 2011), while Texas has the highest number of wrongful executions today. The roug

Illinois has the highest number of historical wrongful executions (abolished in 2011), while Texas has the highest number of wrongful executions today. The rough estimate of innocents sentenced to death is 4%. Also consider the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet except Seychelles, and the prison population demographics are strongly skewed towards poor, mentally-disabled who are reasonably incompetent to make legal decisions, minorities, and men. Louisiana has 1.4% (2.5% or 1 in 40 men) of all of their citizens behind bars. Texas has 1.2%.