Over 200 death row inmates have been exonerated since the 1970s, yet executions are accelerating in states like Florida and Tennessee. Pamela Colloff explains why public support for capital punishment has plummeted to just above 50% while some states are doubling down, and what the botched execution of Christa Pike reveals about the future of lethal injection in America. DNA analysis led to over 200 death row exonerations since the 1970s, fundamentally shifting public confidence in capital punishment and introducing widespread awareness that innocent people had been executed.