>>http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/23/virginia.woman.execution/index.html?hpt=C1
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>>I guess someone will be updating the lyrics for "Gramma got run over by a reindeer"
>
>BBC stated that "Virginia carries out the second highest number of executions of any state in the US." Which state is the first one in this respect?

Got to be Texas, I suspect by a wide margin.

Here you go --

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/number-executions-state-and-region-1976