[Vautrin]

Actually there is a case running in the Netherlands with the DNA being the cause of the whole controversy of innocence. I.E. if we had the death-penalty possibly the wrong person was sentenced to death, because of it.

Please don't assume that DNA is reducing mistakes to 0. Something similar was thought to have happened with fingerprints, but was also not the case.

And what if you execute an innocent? Is the state then a murderer, and should the state be tried, and sentenced? To death, in case of neglect (to come to the fore with information that might shed new light on the case)?

Asides from all the philosophical and moral concerns, there is a political one: members of minorities get more death-penalties for the same crime, than members of the majority.

If I recall correctly, Ted Bundy is executed in 1989.