> Considering that a lot of innocent people are murdered by the state via jury and trial in the US the distinction isn't very clear imo.
~211 people were killed via trial sentence in the US in the last 10 years [0]. Presumably some of them weren't innocent. In the same time period (conservatively) 8500 were killed by law enforcement outside of the legal process [1].
Both are problematic, but calling <20 people/year (out of a third of a billion people) "a lot" is missing the forest for the tiny sprig of moss.
Considering that a lot of innocent people are murdered by the state via jury and trial in the US the distinction isn't very clear imo.