The hope was that in recent history, far fewer people had been executed, particularly as technology, and better knowledge of what types of evidence stand up to

The hope was that in recent history, far fewer people had been executed, particularly as technology, and better knowledge of what types of evidence stand up to scrutiny has improved. I was more pondering, how many people in the past have been executed wrongly by the united states. A quick google search suggests that 14,634 were executed in the period 1608-1987. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions.php http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions.php