Don't have to.
en.wikipedia.org
According to the National Academy of Sciences, up to 4.1% of all people on death row are innocent. Which means, the government is committing murder.
"Statistics likely understate the actual problem of wrongful convictions because once an execution has occurred there is often insufficient motivation and finance to keep a case open, and it becomes unlikely at that point that the miscarriage of justice will ever be exposed. For example, in the case of Joseph Roger O'Dell III, executed in Virginia in 1997 for a rape and murder, a prosecuting attorney argued in court in 1998 that if posthumous DNA results exonerated O'Dell, "it would be shouted from the rooftops that ... Virginia executed an innocent man." The state prevailed, and the evidence was destroyed."
For raw numbers, we know of about 200 innocent people who were put on death row, some executed and later found innocent, others found innocent before execution.
I don't think 200 is a small number. Killing ONE innocent person is too much. Over HALF of those exonerations were black.
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