Texas (probably) executed innocent guy

[Scam of God]

The problem is less with the death penalty than the jury system, however, which means we take mouth-breathing retards off the street and when they see a so-called "expert" like that fire marshal tell them the evidence incontrovertibly proves the guy did it, they vote to kill him. We have essentially democratized the dying process, with expected results. We need more to eliminate trial by jury if we're going to retain our present legal system and replace it with inquiries based on the establishment of fact; I would go so far as to completely eliminate civilian participation and create entirely a court system made up based entirely on trial by panels of professional and highly trained jurors, their training making them an even mix of forensic scientists and lawyers.

We furthermore need to divorce evidence gathering from the prosecutor's office. The actual prosecution should be a separate organization of attorneys general with the gathering of evidence being done by a Forensic Departments separate from both the police and the offices of attorneys general; the Forensic Departments would present the evidence to the professional trained jurors and then the attorneys general prosecuting the case and the defense attorneys could throw their own interpretations and observations onto the evidence provided.

The real problem with the death penalty is that it serves as a legitimation of the State's monopoly of violence; it says that the State is quite competent to choose who lives and who dies, but that individual citizens of that State are not. This is completely backwards, for obvious reasons.