… if all death-sentenced defendants remained under sentence of death indefinitely at least 4.1% would be exonerated.
Not that it changes the message, I was just curious if anyone had done the math.
Doing some napkin math, with 1654 executions having taken place since 1970, that means that at least 68 innocent people have been murdered by the state.
According to the NIH it’s 4.1%, although they admit it’s a conservative estimate.
Not that it changes the message, I was just curious if anyone had done the math.
Doing some napkin math, with 1654 executions having taken place since 1970, that means that at least 68 innocent people have been murdered by the state.
Holy fuck that’s nearly 1/20. That’s a wildly unacceptable margin of error. Hell it’s an unacceptable margin of error for a long term prison sentence