1 in 10 chance of being sentenced to death for something you didn't do.*

As much as I think you can absolutely do something so heinous your own life is forfeit, I just as strongly think that the government is vastly underqualified to make and/or carry out those decisions. Can't trust 'em. Just can't.

Only person I'd trust with that decision? Charles Bronson. Maybe Steve McQueen. That's it. And they're dead. So we'll call that a wash.

Hit & Run ; This Week in Innocence - Reason Magazine:

"Thanks to the work of Northwestern University Law School's death penalty clinic, another man wrongly convicted of murder walked free this week...

Illinois has sentenced 224 people to death since reinstating capital punishment in 1977. Since then, 20 have been exonerated. I'm not sure what an acceptable rate of error in death penalty cases would be, but nine percent seems awfully high, doesn't it?"

*Yeah, the math is wrong, but I barely passed Probability and Statistics in college, anyways. Besides, it sounds catchy.