[Teen Vogue] It's Legal to Execute Innocent People in the US Texas governor Greg Abbott must grant Roberson clemency and save his life. Everywhere across the country, the elected officials who participate in the smooth functioning of the cruel and unusual US “machinery of death”, as the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun famously called it 30 years ago, must reverse course, acknowledge the power they have to intervene, and, ultimately, choose human dignity and life. [DENIED] https://www.teenvogue.com/story/robert-roberson-execution-innocent
715 people were executed in the United States between 2003 and 2020. Under 40 per year. The population of the United States is over 333 million. I am against the death penalty, but I wouldn't exactly call that a culture of death. For comparison, about 20 people per year die from lightning in the United States. I wouldn't say we have a culture of being hit by lightning either.
