Since 1973, 185 wrongfully convicted people were exonerated from death row

Evidence

The statistics surrounding the death penalty suggest that as a society we aren’t good at administering this form of justice. Since 1973 alone, 185 people wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death have been exonerated. Furthermore, the rates of minority groups being sentenced to death are disproportionately higher than those of whites. As the Equal Justice Initiative so aptly states, “The question we need to ask about the death penalty in America is not whether someone deserves to die for a crime. The question is whether we deserve to kill.” — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 481

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