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60 Percent of Executions Happen in Texas
The New York Times ^
| 12-26-2007
| ADAM LIPTAK
Posted on 12/26/2007 7:08:55 PM PST by Baladas
(Dec. 26) -- This year’s death penalty bombshells — a de facto national moratorium, a state abolition and the smallest number of executions in more than a decade — have masked what may be the most significant and lasting development. For the first time in the modern history of the death penalty, more than 60 percent of all American executions took place in Texas.
Over the past three decades, the proportion of executions nationwide performed in Texas has held relatively steady, averaging 37 percent. Only once before, in 1986, has the state accounted for even a slight majority of the executions, and that was in a year with 18 executions nationwide.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; dontmesswithtexas; executioms; godblesstexas; texas
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I love the passive structure of the wordimg on the NYT, as if the death penalty is some random event. Still, all those other states have alot of catching up to do.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:08:57 PM PST
by
Baladas
To: Baladas
CONGRATULATIONS TEXAS!
OK.... who bids 65%?... :)
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:10:15 PM PST
by
ElPatriota
(Duncan Hunter 08 -- I am proud to support this man for my president)
To: Baladas
20% of the country doing 80% of the work.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:11:14 PM PST
by
CindyDawg
(.)
To: Baladas
Well, God Bless Texas!
I know that He already has!
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:11:27 PM PST
by
bannie
To: Baladas
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:11:38 PM PST
by
evad
(.)
To: Baladas
As a Texas resident, I this is one stat of which I am particularly proud.
Don’t Mess with Texas.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:12:05 PM PST
by
freedom4me
(Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. --Gen. George Patton)
To: bannie
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:12:07 PM PST
by
evad
(.)
To: evad
Any correlation with a lower murder rate?
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:12:50 PM PST
by
Marie2
(I used to be disgusted. . .now I try to be amused.)
To: CindyDawg
20% of the country doing 80% of the work. Sound like "who pays taxes?"
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:13:10 PM PST
by
evad
(.)
To: CindyDawg
It is a “red” state that’s been flooded by illegals.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:13:36 PM PST
by
Baladas
To: evad
I was typin' really quickly!!!!
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:13:43 PM PST
by
bannie
To: Marie2
Any correlation with a lower murder rate? dunno...would that make a difference?
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:13:57 PM PST
by
evad
(.)
To: Marie2
Yeah. 100%. Not even one has killed again.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:14:22 PM PST
by
CindyDawg
(.)
To: Baladas
“In Texas if you kill someone we will kill you back.”
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:15:57 PM PST
by
festus
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: Baladas
Mexico has a fit but we are an equal opportunity state.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:16:41 PM PST
by
CindyDawg
(.)
To: Baladas
It’s a feature, not a bug.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:17:26 PM PST
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: evad
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:18:16 PM PST
by
CindyDawg
(.)
To: Baladas
To: Baladas
Mr. Liptak, a lawyer, joined The Times’s news staff in 2002
He has served as the chairman of the New York City Bar Association’s communications and media law
He covered the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito; the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Wilson, an undercover C.I.A. operative
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:19:49 PM PST
by
kcvl
To: Baladas
Have they factored in Joe Horn yet?
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:20:35 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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