No, please see post 10. SD is doing a second execution within a few weeks. SD has very few people on death row and the hurdles for these cases have been cleared. While it seems like there has been an uptick over the past decade, SD probably has fewer murders in a year than Chicago does on an average weekend. I will have to look at the statistics.
That's a fair statement.
SD has about 2.8 murders a year.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRord
It also has a population of only 824,000.
By contrast, Obama's Chicago, with a population of 2,707,120, has on average 4.9 murders per weekend, with a median of five.