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There are many steps that go into sentencing a person to death and carrying it out. However there are means of killing that seem to be unethical and can be considered cruel and unusual punishment. Stages that defend the rights of the accused are the; guilt phase trial, Penalty phase trial, and the post conviction review. These each give the defendant a fair chance to prove they are either innocent or not worthy of the death penalty. I do not believe that this is not able to guarantee that only the guilty are convicted because there have already been innocent people convicted. Also I don’t believe it because it does not seem like it is perfect in seeing if someone was either framed or not involved in it as much as the people would think. There are many different types of executions, but there are some that seem to be cruel and unusual punishment. Hanging is cruel because there is a chance that a person could be getting strangled for 45 minutes which no one should go through. Also firing squad is cruel because if the shooters miss the targets heart then he can die a slow and painful death. Also electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment because the person is electrocuted at thirty second intervals where if the person is still alive he is continued to be electrocuted. Also the gas chamber is cruel because it shows that the person is not immediately knocked unconscious and has signs that the person goes through extreme pain during the process. Injection can be considered cruel because if the doctor injects the needle into the muscle instead of the vain, then the person can suffer extreme pain while strapped to the gurney. The most humane method is injection because it is very unlikely that the professional will miss the vain and it causes a quick and painless death. This data shows that the death penalty is mostly enforced in the south. This may have to do with problems such as racism and segregation. Also people may be more ready to convict people to death in the south.  It also shows how there are many more people who support it in the south because that is the majority region that supports it. I think that the previous death penalty was fair because it only convicted those who killed many people, killed people trying to save others, or killed people while meaning to hurt them badly in the process. The removal of the death penalty is not specified but it is most likely because there were a lot of innocent people that were convicted to the death penalty and since there was no perfect plan send only the people who actually convicted the crime to jail, they wanted to save all the people that possibly could have been sent to death row. The chart showed that race does not have a big factor when sentencing people to death row because there were more white people convicted.