The Associated Press reports on a man freed after 26 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. This is the 15th case since 2001 in which a Dallas County inmate has been freed by DNA evidence. Texas is far and away the leading state when it comes to capital punishment. In fact, then Texas Governor George W. Bush joked about it during one of the 2000 presidential debates. (Many people failed to see the humor, but that’s George for you.) Yet, articles like the one mentioned above force us to consider how many of those executed convicts were actually guilty of the crimes for which they were convicted. It defies all probability to think that we have not executed many innocent men and women over the past centuries. As much as some criminals deserve to die for their crimes, I’m not willing to have my government execute innocents in my name. I have to wonder how many Texans feel the same way.