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70% of people currently on Death Row in the states have questionable convictions.
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/00/06/lawStudy.html 68%
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I guess that depends on what you mean by "error rates". I'm sure that there are many technical and procedural errors made in the decades long saga which ends in capital punishment. As the Columbia study that Phillis pointed out shows....judges make "mistakes" in jury instruction, police officers make processing "mistakes", defense attorneys make mistakes and on down the line during arrest, multiple trials and multiple appeals. HOWEVER, if you are asking how many innocent people die on death row, I suspect that answer is none. The process is just too long and weighted too heavily in favor of the accused. Of course, if you ask the prisoners, you will find that 100% of convicts are "innocent".
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Sufficiently high enough to make it a complete waste of time and money. Vengeance is an unhealthy emotion often confused with justice.
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100% in my opinion. The death penalty is pure revenge.
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