Part 3: State Data of Death Penalty

One of the things that I noticed after looking at the map of America and it breaking down the number of executions by state was that white men from the south are the most common executions. Black males from the south come very close to whites, however there are more white male executions than blacks. Asians, Women, Latinos, and Native Americans have the lowest amounts of executions. When looking at the state by state data about the death penalty, most states seem very similar where they started off with hanging, then the electric chair, and now use lethal injection as their way of execution. Something that I saw about Illinois is that they have more sentences than executions, which means that there have been cases where someone was first accused as guilty and then later found innocent of their crimes, or granted clemency. Another thing I saw about Illinois is that there has been a decrease of support for the death penalty, and less people are starting to think that it should be allowed in Illinois. This data does not sure any issues in equality or arbitrariness because there seems to be a solid system for executing people, and there is not an imbalance of executions for whites and blacks. Even though it is not balanced for every other race, I don't think there is an issue of inequality. I do believe though in Texas that their system must be unfair because there is no way that that state can be that much more violent than any other state. There number of executions is about four times as much as the second highest state. It seems like their system must be flawed or unfair to have that many executions.