David: There's just this incredible story, and by incredible I mean I'm glad to see it, not incredible, it's actually pretty logical. In Illinois, they're hoping to, some people are hoping to abolish the death penalty altogether. The Illinois Senate voted a few days ago to abolish capital punishment, and this would now send the issue to Governor Pat Quinn. And then the idea here, we don't know, I haven't heard whether Pat Quinn is actually going to vote for this or not, and let's put the map up of where we actually still use the death penalty across the world and where we don't.
This is a state, Illinois, that actually removed 20 wrongly-condemned people from death row since 1987. So whenever people like to make the argument there's really no risk of executing innocent people with the death penalty, well, if you believe that every single one after being convicted will somehow be found to be innocent and then released, well, that's kind of a long stretch. I don't believe that. The Senate voted 32 to 25 to end execution more than a decade after a former governor halted the punishment he called "haunted by the demon of error". Illinois would be the fourth state since 2007 to get rid of capital punishment. It would make it 15 total.