11.   But he says calls for a moratorium on capital punishment have raised serious questions about the possibility of putting an innocent person to death.

12.   But it is worse to be burdened with the thought that an innocent person has been executed.

13.   But questions have continued whether in the name of you and me the state might actually kill an innocent person.

14.   But unlike Schlup, he did not claim that his trial had been constitutionally defective but rather that it would be unconstitutional to execute an innocent person.

15.   Cellucci and Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift, both former death-penalty opponents, also insisted their bill had safeguards to prevent the execution of an innocent person.

16.   Cellucci would not say that the safeguards can absolutely prevent the execution of an innocent person.

17.   Convicting an innocent person not only commits a terrible injustice, but leaves a guilty criminal on the streets.

18.   Fifty-nine percent said an innocent person probably had been executed in Texas.

19.   Executing the occasional innocent person, I heard a talk show caller say, is the price we have to pay for having the death penalty.

20.   Fidler said he would find it hard to sleep if he thought he was denying an innocent person the right to a fair trial.