YES. If 50% were innocent, then problem is the court system and the juries, not the punishment.While that sounds nice, you can release somebody sentenced to life in prison. You can't unexecute someone.
Well they better fix it before the next one gets executed, right?
I don’t believe, even for a second, that 50% or even 5% are wrongly convicted. But if there is a problem, it is not the with the penalty, and trying to fix it at that end accomplishes nothing.
And, if there is a problem with wrongful convictions, executions are proceeding so slowly that they probably have plenty of time to fix it, too.