To Ensure the Innocent are Not Executed

The wrongful execution of someone is not what any judicial system wants, and to ensure that the innocent are acquitted some guidelines would most likely be implemented into capital offence cases. To ensure the innocent are acquitted some basic guidelines (guidelines followed by the American judicial system) would be: more pre-trial time to prepare the case, facts, and evidence, more pre-trial motions are filed and answered, more experts are hired for the case,  twice as many attorneys are appointed for the defence and more lawyers for the prosecution, jurors are questioned as to their views on the death penalty and are more likely to be sequestered. With all of these additions the court needs two trials, one trial for guilt and a second for punishment if originally found guilty of a capital offence. The wrongful conviction can happen in any imperfect judicial system and having an innocent person get a life sentence in jail is exponentially more likely than a wrongful execution when all of these safeguards are implemented.