Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/7/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!yee From: yee@ucbvax.ARPA (Peter E. Yee) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Death penalty statistics Message-ID: <4260@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 23:43:17 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4260 Posted: Fri Jan 18 23:43:17 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 10:45:59 EST References: <419@ihuxo.UUCP> Reply-To: yee@ucbvax.UUCP (Peter E. Yee) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 11 Summary: In article <419@ihuxo.UUCP> klotz@ihuxo.UUCP (Dave Klotzbach) writes: >2. The possibility of error. How many executed persons have been later > exhonerated. What is the possibility of such an error. How accurately could you get such statistics. I doubt that every case in which a man is executed is checked again later for errors. After all, the deed is done, why seek to raise a ruckus over the dead? -Peter Yee ..ucbvax!yee yee@Berkeley.ARPA