Death Penalty Additional Background Info

Stages in a capital case like separate trails for sentencing, and determination of guilt protect the accused rights. Also different methods such as aggravating and mitigating factors help the jury make a reasonable sentence if the defendant is found guilty. I don't believe that these methods are sufficient because we have heard of many cases where defendants are truly innocent but a false confession was forced out of the by the police. The only humane mehtod of execution is lethal injection since the convict is asleep and will most likely feel no pain. The other methods seem very painful and demeaning to the convict. Illinois has very few death row inmates, but it has executed nearly all of them, while other states like Texas have executed hundreds of inmates, and has many death row inmates as well. It seems that southern and western states are more likely to punish inmates with the death penalty. The Illinois death penalty statute did not seem strict enough and I feel like many innocent people could be wrongly convicted under these statutes, even though the chart said illinois had very few death row inmates and executions, I don't believe that the statute is strict enough. It was very shocking to see how many death penalty cases had racial discrimination against the victim or defendant. Overall i think should be outlawed in America due to painful forms of execution, and the unfair, and loose statutes set forth by the law.