Ignoring the chances of him being assaulted and/or killed by an inmate (does anyone have any data on this? I started to look, but couldn't find anything). What if he was later found to be not guilty?
Now these statistics don't include anything about being found not guilty after the execution (I couldn't find anything on that, I guess what's the point of finding someone not guilty after they are dead). So theoretically, all of the people who went through the appeals, and were executed could be quite guilty, and the ones who were not finally got out of the execution.
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From the ACLU deathrow website http://archive.aclu.org/death-penalty/toolkit_pt5.html Take it with a grain of salt if you will
Since 1976, over 700 people have been executed collectively by the 38 states that practice the death penalty. During that same period of time, 95 people have been freed from death row.
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Now I know this is getting into the general idea of the death penalty, but it has enough relevance I think.