The people that get murdered every day are also wrongly sentenced to death with no hope of a court to decide their fate. There is no hope of being found not guilty, they are simply and without cause murdered. I would take any bet anyone has to offer that wrongly convicted people put to death by our court system is minuscule in comparison to the numbers of innocent victims murdered every day.
No two wrongs will make a right, but the sheer knowledge that the state will put you to death if found guilty of murder has to be a deterrent to the bad guys. I guarantee you a majority of felons in prison for rape, murder etc know what states have the death penalty and what states do not.
