It's ludicrous to say "oh, you murdered a whole family? thats alright buddy we'll take care of you and feed you for the rest of your life". No that starfish deserves to be executed.
this is exactly what they want. they don't want to live anymore. Killing them would end the misery of jail for life.
I don't think you could even find any cases where this has happened in the past 50 years.
Jesse Tafero, Carlos DeLuna, Cameron Todd Willingham, Ruben Cantu, David Wayne Spence, & Larry Griffin.
All of these happened in the past 50 years, and some are even within the past 20 years.
These are people that were executed then later found innocent, this doesn't even mention the people who've been in jail for 10+ years that are later found innocent.