>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/23/virginia.woman.execution/index.html?hpt=C1
>>>>
>>>>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 --
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>>http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/number-executions-state-and-region-1976
>
>What is the common factor of OH and AL having a growth rate far above anybody else ?
>Current governors refusing to postpone executions ?
>A rise in crimes/sentences a few years ago fueling it now ?
>
>[partially trivial numbers just make me curious...
>only answer if you know it through common knowledge not availabe here]
>

No, I don't know or even have a theory. Sorry.