If Ousmane Bah didnt have a good lawyer he would be in jail and have his life destroyed already, such actions like this should be treated as a crime of falsifying evidence at least.
There must be many more that are not lucky.
Around 4.1% of people on death row are estimated to be innocent.
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/20/7230
I have a hard time imaging, that the rate is lower for lesser crimes where the victims of the justice system can be coerced to accept a "lesser" punishment.
Personally I believe the 4.1% estimate to be pretty low, and it one of the reasons I strongly oppose capital punishment, I simply do not trust our legal system enough to give them the power and authority to kill people
Agreed, because humans are fallible, and a jury is made of humans The courts can always release on appeal. You can't un-kill someone
That said in broad strokes, Death is final, and while reintegration may be pretty hard, if a person spent 20 years in prison because society made a mistake, I think that person should get a very large settlement from the state to the point where they never have to work again thus making that transition much easier.
I am also a supporter of legalized suicide for the general public as well, especially for the terminally ill
Combined with some therapy or something.
But not as punishment.
For me, the main reason to oppose the death penalty is also that innocent people get killed.