This. They are all human sacrifices, but the execution of a human being despite clear exonerating evidence or clear evidence of insufficient evidence of guilt is an open, acknowledged human sacrifice. One that our society finds it too easy to make when the human being in question is Black.

And it will never stop unless the death penalty is abolished. Even if it weren't morally abhorrent in its very existence, even if the death penalty could be considered just and humane when done perfectly, there is no way to make the death penalty flawless, and there is no way to undo execution.