>>I wonder how many innocent people have been executed. I'm sure there have been some. And I also wonder how many guilty people have walked via technicality. I think the current system has enough safeguards in place to preclude execution of innocent people. Given all the appeals, technicalities, etc that a person has in a trial, and particularly in a capital case, I don't have a problem with the states executing people who have been adjudicated as guilty. In order to prove a capital case, the state has an extremely high hurdle to cross.
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>Unless the meaning of "preclude" has changed while I wasn't looking, the current system does NOT have enough safeguards in place. Innocent people HAVE been executed. That's the whole issue.
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>BTW, as I'm sure you also know, Illinois is not the only state with a moratorium on capital punishment (of the 36 who have capital punishment in the first place). There are a dozen or so.

I am well aware.