interest in justice issues is the racial aspect, the fact that when you look at the way the death penalty is used in the united states and when you look at the way prosecutors pursue these cases, whether it is deliberate or accidental, whether it is something that we think comes from a direct racial -- or other types of coincidence or juries, the fact on the data is all out there that shows that death penalty is disproportionately used many times against african americans. and that's an issue that we have to weigh in addition to all the other tough issues tonight. one thing i want to say to you, ed, you asked an important question repeatedly tonight about whether an innocent man was executed. but if we take one step back as we think through all these issues tonight, we know from the innocence project that 273 people have had post-conviction dna exonerations. that means that science has told us what juries didn't, which is that it turned out they were not guilty. 17 of those people, i would highlight, were at one time on death row. and lastly, 166 of those 273