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I wonder how many innocent are executed per year on average.
by kubb 4y ago
I wonder how many innocent are executed per year on average.
- SoftTalker 4y agoBy criminals or by the justice system?
- kubb 4y agoBy the "justice system" obviously.
- LarryMullins 4y agoSeems a bit odd to dwell on the scenario which is far less common.
- kubb 4y agoI'm wondering how common it is.
- LarryMullins 4y agoAssuming every single person executed by the government was innocent, the government executing innocent people is still several orders of magnitude less common than common murder. 18 people were executed by the government in America last year. More than 20 thousand people in America were murdered during the same time period. Assuming the government only executes innocent people, you are 1000x more likely to be murdered by a criminal than a government executioner. If you include everybody killed by the police, and assume every last one of those killings was unjust, you are still 20x more likely to be killed by a common murderer than by the government.
- IllogicalLogic 4y ago[dead]
- kubb 4y agoI think you misunderstand my question. I'm not wondering how often innocent people get executed in Texas relative to the number of people murdered. I'm asking about the absolute number.
- LarryMullins 4y ago18 people is the absolute maximum number of innocent people that might have been executed in 2022, for the entirety of America. Texas only executed 5 people in 2022.
- rootusrootus 4y agoIs that a serious question? Only the justice system can execute someone.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoCartels execute people all the time.
- rootusrootus 4y agoThe definition of execute is killing a legally condemned person. The cartels can kill someone execution-style.
- awb 4y agoThe Innocence Project estimates 1% of all inmates are wrongfully convicted: https://innocenceproject.org/how-many-innocent-people-are-in-prison/ https://innocenceproject.org/how-many-innocent-people-are-in... Others put the range between 0.027% and 4.1% https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-many-people-are-wrongly-convicted-researchers-do-the-math https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-many-... > So then the next terrifying question is, geeze, how many innocent people have actually been executed? > Fortunately it’s probably not many. Innocent defendants are far more likley to have their sentenced changed to life in prison than to be executed. Still, with an error rate of 4 percent, the researchers write, “it is all but certain that several of the 1,320 defendants executed since 1977 were innocent.” Of the 1,320 executions over the past 45 years, using various estimates of wrongful convictions: 0.027% = 0.35 total (~1 every 128.5 years) 1% = 13.2 total (~1 every 3.4 years) 4.1% = 54.12 total (~1 every 10 months)