Atheism & the Death Penalty.

[God of Mr. Hanky]

Funny how people who don't believe in a god talk as if they had god-like ability to decide who is innocent and who is guilty. While I'm willing to bet all that there is no god, there's a much better chance than this that the next person to be executed in America will be innocent of the crime he or she was convicted of. In fact, there is quite a rich history of people whose convictions were overturned posthumously. Too many for my stomach, which is why I won't get behind any legislation which doesn't prohibit this.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/14/us/25-...finds.html

Hey, that's why I said it was my personal, emotional feeling on the subject, not my well reasoned argument for it with consideration for all the available evidence. [emoji849] Innocent people being executed is obviously a problem.  I'm saying I am not morally opposed to serial killers being put to death, and in fact I believe they deserve it.  

The article you linked to was from 1985.  Have we made any progress toward decreasing the number of innocent people sentenced since then?

1985 was before Texas and a few other states became infamous for rushing the death penalty, therefore I believe the antiquity of the article and the relative short span from the 1973 SCOTUS decision which allowed this says plenty without any follow-up. Nevertheless, my more recent post links to a comprehensive, and probably more up-to-date Wiki article, lots of data there.