Death penalty responses

My post received a couple of responses. Interestingly, Toby notes that there is at least one book detailing exactly the type of problems I hypothesized would be found, if they existed. Unfortunately, I thought they didn't exist. Score one for Toby.

This underscores the remark made by Apu the commentator -- perhaps I was too hasty in assuming I would have heard of cases of innocent executions if they existed. Score one for Apu.