>>>>
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?
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>>Got to be Texas, I suspect by a wide margin.
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>>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]
>
>
>regards
>
>thomas
The governor's office and a senate seat are up for election this year and the Democrats are in big trouble. It is traditionally a time when Democrats do whatever they can to be "tough on crime" - or to at least pay lip service to same.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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- Ben Franklin
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