Death Penalty

I think that the process of a serious crime is unfair to those who have committed past crimes. Police have to rely on pictures of past offenders or criminals which only targets those who obviously had previously committed a crime. But what about the other people?! Im aware that its hard to get the pictures of people who have not committed a crime, but this means that if the police don't know who committed a crime there is a good chance that they could arrest a man who had committed a previous crime and they charge him for a new one based on the fact that he might live near the scene of the crime. The police should only be able to arrest someone with evidence, not probable cause.
Aside from that, i think that the court system designed the method for serious crimes and/or death penatly cases in a specific way so that it would be difficult for an innocent man to be put on death row. I think this because he is put in course with a jury of his peers, where he must be proven guilty by evidence. If in fact he is proven guilty, there is a period where he can appeal evidence or misconduct in the court house which would make all evidence used invalid. This way if the prosecuter has a good lawyer, he should be able to get out of the suit with not guilty if he truly is not guilty.
I believe that lethal injection and possibly a firing squad is the most humane because it puts the person to sleep right away. Electricution, gas, and hangings are slow and painful therefore it would make it "cruel and unusual" I think that the firing squad is ok because if you shoot someone in the right place they can and will die immediately, even though it would be a little scarry. Finally, i think lethal injection is perfectly ok because within seconds it puts the person to sleep without harm.
I quickly noticed from the charts that the states with the most executions on death row, do not have the highest murder rate in the united states. This makes me believe that some states are more in favor of using the death penalty than others which is very true. This makes it hard to decide which cases are worth of moving to decision of death row simply because each states views each case at different extremities. California, Florida, and Texas have the most people and executions on death row, but their murder rate is only in the 5 percentile when others are higher but with significantly less executions.'
The document for the capital murder in Illinois states that basically you can be put on death row if you kill a worker of peace (fireman or police officer), or if you commit multiple crimes which would make you second offence murderer, or if the murder was cruel and unusual to a normal person, or if the murder was commited against a child, someone who could not defend for themselve, or a disabled person. I believe this is fair because it is justifiable and reasonable. These would be easy to dispute in a case and it puts the "one time killers" aside from the repeated offenders.
The charts say that 75% of people executed were white, which i believe is because of hate crimes of white people against other races and ethnicities. The difference between usage of lethal injection and other uses of is significant by almost 1000 uses. I think this is because most states find the other ways cruel and unusual. In the video we just watched, it even said that some states think that lethal injection is cruel and unusual because the death process can take a long time. Here i think is a stat that could end the usage of the death penalty,
"Taxpayers have paid more than $250 million for each of the state’s executions. (L.A. Times, March 6, 2005)"