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Assuming every single person executed by the government was innocent, the government executing innocent people is still several orders of magnitude less common than common murder.

18 people were executed by the government in America last year. More than 20 thousand people in America were murdered during the same time period. Assuming the government only executes innocent people, you are 1000x more likely to be murdered by a criminal than a government executioner. If you include everybody killed by the police, and assume every last one of those killings was unjust, you are still 20x more likely to be killed by a common murderer than by the government.



I think you misunderstand my question. I'm not wondering how often innocent people get executed in Texas relative to the number of people murdered. I'm asking about the absolute number.


18 people is the absolute maximum number of innocent people that might have been executed in 2022, for the entirety of America. Texas only executed 5 people in 2022.




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