The Death Penalty

The preliminary aspect of a capital case seemed to be designed to protect the rights of the accused because if the evidence is insufficient that could be the defendants first outlet to avoiding the death penalty as it can possibly avoid having to withstand the grand jury review. I believe the process in which is taken to determine the death penalty upon a person is sufficient in finding the guilty victims as they take several perspectives so find evidence in determining the outcome of the trial, however this system cannot guarantee anything as there are flaws in it where non-guilty vitcims are sentenced of certain crimes as some evidence may be slightly scewed as there may have not been enough scientific research done on the crime at hand to prove that all the evidence presented in the trial to be 100% true.

The new process to killing the victims by using lethal injections is the most humane way of executing the criminals as they are not putting these criminals in a long torturous death forcing them to suffer for the last part of their lives, as they inject them with the anesthetics to make a quick death that is the most humane compared to the other ones. I believe the "hanging" method is considered "cruel and unusual" because they are making these victims suffer pain for a long period of time lasting up to 45 minutes and though they should suffer for the crimes they committed, the death should be made quick and easy instead of torturing them in these cruel methods.

When looking at the data of the death penalty through the graph of the different states it is obvious that the men overpower the women in terms of death penalties. The black community has the highest number of criminals on death row followed by white, Latino, Asian and Native American. One conclusion that could be drawn from the high number of African-American criminals being sentenced to death is due to the environment that they grow up in. Many of them grow up through poor backgrounds that force them to being involved in drug dealing processes to try and make money for themselves and their families and these environments lead to involvement in gangs which lead to violence through shootings and can be a reasoning for the large number of sentences to this race. California and Florida have the most death penalty sentences, but that is also due to the size of their states. One trend that I see is that a majority of the population belongs to the southern states such as Texas, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, California, etc. which shows that these criminal acts occur more often on the southern region of the country and more murders occur in these states. As well as these states having the larger number of people on death row, many of the northern states do not have the death penalty showing a discrepancy in the values of different topics between the different regions of the United States. One of the issues that may have lead to the southern states could be the slavery involved in its history as many minorities were treated unfairly. As the African-American population has the largest number of citizens on death row, many coming from the south, could be due to the history of slavery being put in bad environments and situations and these could have led to these actions being taken as their values could be different than the rest of the society.

I believe that the policies of the Illinois Capital Murder Statue were fair as they did a good job of determining the death sentences based on the situations behind the killings and the litigating factors within the certain cases. One of the aggravating factors that I disagree with was when a person committed a murder for self-defense due to a hijacking because if they are trying to save their own life and they just act upon self-defense they should not be sentenced to death for trying to protect themselves.

One of the reasons why the Illinois death penalty is no longer in effect is because there were so many people found Innocent (20) and so many that were granted the Clemency to a new trial (187) so it seemed as the death penalty was inneffective as many were wrongly convicted.

After looking at these charts and reading all the different information it seems as if the white community has committed more murders, but blacks have more people on death row as a way higher percent of the blacks that committed their crimes were sentenced to death. This was a main factor that I did not realize in my first response, as I didn't realize how whites seemed to get out of death row more often than the blacks did. Over the years the death sentencing has dropped drastically over the years, which is most likely due to the new intellectual disabillities laws that were created in 2002 not allowing the court to put anybody on death row diagnosed with mental retardation. In the economics outlook it seems as if the death penalty cases are very costly as they are found to be way more expensive than non-capital cases due to all the trials, appeals, and studies involved to determine the outcome of the cases. I think the Death Penalty Information center is against the death penalty because they show all the redicoulous costs involved with it and all the innocent cases involved. They seem to try and convince the reader to be against the death penalty because of all the charts and information that they are giving to the reader. I would like to see information on the other side.

Yes I believe he should receive the death penalty if he is caught because though he is protecting many people by killing criminals and finishing these investigations, he also has killed innocent victims in his journey which is completely unacceptable and as he is a serial killer who has killed many people he should get the sentence even though he is trying to help out others in these tasks, he has murdered an innocent person where any other victim would as well get the death sentence.