is remarkably consistent among every group of This feeling people, even as there are solid divides found in the way people of different races and with different political beliefs view the Yet regardless of other disputes over the death penalty, everyone seems to agree that the country's capital punishment system carries with it an inherent risk of executing the innocent. Majorities of every group polled by Pew agreed that there is a danger that this will happen. [Why the Supreme Court is considering lethal injection again] Death penalty opponents point to this danger as one of the main reasons they object to the practice. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said earlier this year he opposes the death penalty because the ultimate nightmare is that someone will be executed in error. And because death sentences are handed out as part of a system that ultimately relies on the judgments of human beings people can, and do, make mistakes such a failure is "inevitable," he said There's always the possibility that mistakes will be made," Holder said. Mistakes and determinations made by juries, mistakes in terms of the kind of representation somebody facing a capital offense receives... There is no ability to correct a mistake where somebody has, in fact, been executed. This concept-an innocent person who is still found guilty and given the most severe sentence possible is obviously not