Reply #47: "we are alive ... rapist is not." Unless, of course, he wasn't the rapist.

[ieoeja]

The Innocence Project did their most thorough investigations of everyone sitting on death row in the project's home state of Illinois. Over 50% of the inmates were ultimately set free. Some for technicalities, but most because they were proven innocent.

Got that? The only state that has ever had each and every death row case reviewed by an independant agency ended up having the MAJORITY of those convictions overturned.

Living in Illinois, hearing about another capital conviction being overturned became background news for me. I am embarrassed to admit that I continued my support of the death penalty until it hit the magic 50% figure. Something about a majority being overturned sent a shock through my system and finally woke me up to the fact that we have been killing innocent people.

And that executing an innocent person isn't even a rare occurrence, but a common one.