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Hopefully your map looked like this:
That many people are convicted and subsequently found to be innocent isn't direct evidence for the view that capital punishment is wrong, it instead supports the claim that innocent people are sometimes executed.
We couldn't put the reason boxes around the other way: the fact that innocent people are sometimes executed doesn't supply any evidence at all for the claim that many convicted murderers later turn out to be innocent (in fact it is completely irrelevant!).
© Austhink 2013. Rationale Exercises version 0.1, Jan-13
Note: these exercises are undergoing continual improvement. Next time you come back they might be a bit different.
