Facts About the Death Penalty – Has an Innocent Person Ever Been Executed? | Death Penalty Information Center

Facts About the Death Penalty – Has an Innocent Person Ever Been Executed? | Death Penalty Information Center

An unde­ni­able truth of the death penal­ty is that it car­ries the inher­ent risk of exe­cut­ing inno­cent indi­vid­u­als. Many may believe that the exe­cu­tion of an inno­cent per­son is an anom­aly and that the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem has ade­quate safe­guards in place to rec­ti­fy wrong­ful con­vic­tions. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. **Fact: For Every 8 Individuals Executed in the Modern Era, One Other Death-Sentenced Perso…