As fellow Baptist, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote:

“We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.” ”
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

With an ancient history including the Magna Carta of 1215, clause 40 of which reads, “To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.”

The Innocence Project tries to show the danger of convicting and killing innocent people. The fact that they have exonerated any actually makes it less likely. Improved genetic testing makes false convictions less likely. Therefore, killing only killers is more likely. Some convictions don’t hinge on DNA, though, and exonerations are harder to get in those cases.

“As a percentage of all death sentences, that’s just 1.6 percent. But if the innocence rate is 4.1 percent, more than twice the rate of exoneration, the study suggests what most people assumed but dreaded: An untold number of innocent people have been executed.”

So, with improved forensics, probability of false convictions drops even lower than an already-low 1.6%. There is definitely no reason to assume it is higher, like 4% for example.

Nobody wants to hurt innocent people. This includes those innocent people killed by released killers. Lawyers understand the convicted are actually guilty, so they concentrate on other ways to release their clients. (They don’t really care about guilt, just their clients.)

David for time viewers and brain scanners

156 individuals have been exonerated from death row–that is, found to be innocent and released – since 1973. In other words, for every 10 people who have been executed since the death penalty was reinstated in the U.S., one person has been set free.
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row

Nah, that would be wrong. People should never torture anything or one. If you think he needs to die, you should do so as kindly as possible. I suggest a mixture of 5% Carbon Dioxide and 95% Nitrogen. No pain, no mess, no expensive chemicals to buy and no calling on anyone to commit torture.

David for good gas — and certainty