LIST OF EXONERATED MEN! HOW MANY INNOCENT HAVE DIED?

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row

My first thought after seeing this was "how many innocent people have "We The People murdered?"  No justice system is ever perfect, that is why the finality of Capital Punishment scares me.  I absolutely believe that some people deserve nothing but death for their crimes, but not at the cost of innocent lives.  Vladimer Lenin was once said to remark "better 100 innocent men die than one guilty man go free."  A perfect reflection of the state for which his Bolshevik revolution would create The Soviet Union.  Growing up as a child in the 1980's I am old enough to remember the threat of Communism and I was told by my parents that it and all of its policies were "EVIL" and they were the antithesis to the American way.  I was told that while life isn't fair I lived in one of the most free and fair societies in the world.  I was led to believe that I lived in a country that believed in civil rights, that believed that an innocent life was important.  I was led to believe that I lived in a society opposed to the ideology of Vladimir Lenin.  I was led to believe that I lived in a country that believed better to not put a hundred guilty men to death than murder one innocent man.  Why did my parents lie to me?