Does this scare you.........?

I oppose the death penalty for this very reason. To many people have been sentenced to death and later exonerated prior to the sentence being carried out. How many were exonerated after the sentence was carried out? How many were just plain innocent and railroaded into the hot seat? You cannot bring back a person from the dead and if one innocent person is executed we have destroyed our credibility of law and order. How does the convicted person feel after serving 5/10/20/30/50 years in prison on death row and then being exonerated? Are they sane enough to release back into our so called decent society? Could they ever trust the police? Lawyers? The courts? The powers that be? Is this not cruel and unusual punishment in itself? The death penalty in itself is cruel and unusual punishment. I could only imagine being locked away and every day being reminded that I am a convicted criminal that has been sentenced to death. That would cut away at even the strongest personality and slowly create mental illness.