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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OK.... who bids 65%?... :)
20% of the country doing 80% of the work.
Well, God Bless Texas!
I know that He already has!
God Bless Texas!
As a Texas resident, I this is one stat of which I am particularly proud.
Don’t Mess with Texas.
heh...ya beat me :)
Any correlation with a lower murder rate?
Sound like "who pays taxes?"
It is a “red” state that’s been flooded by illegals.
dunno...would that make a difference?
Yeah. 100%. Not even one has killed again.
“In Texas if you kill someone we will kill you back.”
Mexico has a fit but we are an equal opportunity state.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
Don’t get me started.
NEXT!
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
Have they factored in Joe Horn yet?
Is that the “express lane” Tater Salad spoke of?
That doesn't even count the freelance ones arising from home defense.
Any correlation with a lower murder rate?
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=169
Texas will always have a special place in this Yankee’s heart.
100% of those executed never murder again.
We’re Number One! We’re Number One! ...
We have 15 to 20 thousand murders per year in the US. When we reach at least 10 thousand executions per year we will learn if it is a deterent.
Thanks for the good news NY Times. I bet it just pisses you off that there is still a state in the Union that has the balls to execute criminals.
So? If you don't want to risk a death sentence, kill somebody in New York. Or Massachusetts. Or Illinois. Problem solved, and I'm not even an "I'm smarter than you dumb hicks" New York lawyer.
And FTR, I, too, am tired of doing the heavy lifting for the rest of the country.
Texas does nothing to change what it already does and there is this significant development? This is truly idiotic. It figures he's a secular humanist lawyer. Not a very good writer either (IMHO).
That is one scary building complex to walk into. I was always nervous I'd get stuck in there from an admin error.
There are only two certainties in life: death and Texas.
;^)
It’s a disappointing stat: why should the Lone Star State have to shoulder such a disproportionate burden of the need for final justice?
Why doesn’t the MSM focus on the percentage of crimes committed against innocent Americans by illegal aliens, instead of the percentage of executions of murderers in Texas.
You're right...Texas is getting jipped on the numbers!
New Jersey’s Number Fifty! New Jersey’s Number Fifty!
Why the comfortable-looking pillow on the execution place?
Why not just strap the perp’s forehead flat to the death gurney, so that he can be made to gaze helplessly upward at a projected ceiling image of the GATES OF HELL!!?
WE’RE #1!!
I doubt their victims had it so good. No comfortable pillows for the victims no doubt.
God bless Texas
LOL!!!
Woo-hoo!!!!
That makes me almost as happy as the Cowboys' assured participation in the play-offs!
:-D
And how many executions are the citizens of Philly resonsible for? (without a trial)
As a Virginian, I’m embarrassed for my state.
p
“We’re seeing fewer people sentenced to death. People really do question capital punishment. The whole idea of exoneration has really penetrated popular culture.”
WRONG!
This is one of the murderers put to death in Texas...
On the afternoon of August 18, 1986 and just two months after he had been paroled from prison, Michael Richard approached Marguerite Dixon’s son, Albert, in front of the Dixon home in Hockley and asked if a yellow van parked outside the home was for sale. Albert said the vehicle belonged to his brother who was out of town and suggested that Richard come back another time. Richard left.
Michael Wayne Richard, who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. Tuesday, September 25, 2007. Richard was convicted and sentenced to death for the capital murder of Marguerite Dixon during a burglary of her Houston-area home in 1986.
During the punishment phase of his trial, the state presented evidence of Richard’s two prior convictions for burglary of a habitation. Evidence was also presented of an auto theft charge, committed shortly after the second burglary, but not prosecuted. Richard murdered Mrs. Dixon less than two months after he was released on mandatory supervision for his second burglary conviction.
One reason is that Texas does not have a provision for a life sentence without parole.
I guess for the same reason they rub alcohol on the condemned prisoners arm before inserting the sterile needle.
I’m sorry Texas has to do most of the work (but glad they’re willing to take up the slack for the rest of us who can’t be bothered to put some of the miserable SOBs out of our misery)...
I’M PROUD OF THAT TITLE...Way to go my Texas...execute ‘em. It’s scriptural...it just takes way too long...now that’s not scriptural...once convicted I believe it must happen by sun down.
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