Posted on 11/03/2023 10:49:32 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
This past week, Texas Governor Rick Perry notched his 250th execution. Writers, movie stars, guys who didn’t do it … Perry has executed them all.
That’s far and away the most for governors under the modern US death penalty regime. But is it an all-time record?
The answer appears to be “yes”: a review of state execution data reveals no other governor throughout the U.S. constitutional era who even approaches Perry’s body count, at least not when it comes to peacetime civilian cases. Only two other men — Perry’s predecessor George W. Bush, and Depression-era New York chief executive Herbert Lehman* — appear to have signed off on as many as one hundred executions.
In attempting to explore this question, I compiled this rough list of the U.S. governors who have overseen a large number (35+) of executions. Emphasis on rough. The method I’ve used here is just a quick manual comparison of the historical U.S. executions recorded in the Espy file to U.S. governor terms as reported on Wikipedia. Then, I backed out known federal executions, which for most of U.S. history took place in various state prisons. (For instance, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were electrocuted at Sing Sing in New York … but not by authorities of the Empire State.)....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
sweet! good going Perry!
rid the world of this filth
Third post! 🏆
2012 - The Mayan calendar says we’re all doomed anyway.
I counted 766 total for the Great State of Texas. Imagine how many citizen lives were saved as a result of these executions. Not one of them hurt anybody after their execution.
Legal or illegal. In the old days a lot of people were killed for stealing cattle or horses without trial.
In his nearly 11 years as the state’s chief executive, Rick Perry, Texas, has overseen more executions than any governor in modern history: 234 and counting.
In the old days they executed more in territories that didn’t have governors so the numbers being used are more modern than due to coverage. There really is no way of knowing how many were actually executed in North America.
wy69
I’m still waiting for the express lane....
FTA:
“A given governor’s personal involvement in a given local execution prior to that (and particularly in antebellum America) is not to be assumed. Even now, some states (present-day Texas included) limit the ability of the governor to extend clemency, or vest that power in an agency.”
I wish they would do that in Ohio. I don’t think there have been any executions under DeWine.
When Trump gets back into the White House, there will be a new record of executions.
Looking at you Lizard Cheney and Kinzinger. Treachery comes with a price and you are going to pay. /spit
America was never like France. We didn't do anything crazy. When somebody did something bad, we had a public hanging. Everyone saw and got the message. So that was it.
Just my educated guess.
So Rick Perry probably had the most executions.
Do the 2020 bodycounts of Governors Cuomo, Newsome, or Whitmer count?
One can only hope!
“When somebody did something bad, we had a public hanging.”
You might call something a public hanging. Or maybe you could consider the burning of witches in Salem. They also drowned them. There’s the story, true, of Cattle Cate in Wyoming hung without trial for cattle rustling in 1889.
The way this works is that they give it a name and ignore it when it happens. A summary execution is an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without the benefit of a full and fair trial. Happened all the time in history.
On December 26, 1862, following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the federal government hanged 38 members of the Dakota tribe in Minnesota. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.
Two days after the Dakota surrendered at Camp Release on September 26, 1862, a military commission began trying Dakota men accused of participating in the war. The rapid trials—some no more than five minutes—of 392 prisoners were completed in November. According to the Minnesota Historical Society, 303 men were sentenced to death and 16 received prison terms.
After reviewing the trial transcripts, President Abraham Lincoln provided a list of 39 names of prisoners to be executed. One received a last minute reprieve. On the morning of December 26, 1862, in front of an estimated crowd of 4,000 spectators and on a specially constructed mass-hanging scaffold, the men were executed. They were left dangling from the scaffold for a half hour.
Hmmmm...
wy69
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom were executed by hanging (14 women and five men).
Rick Perry still had the most executions.
Our military killed more people. But that's what they do. So that doesn't really count.
Not enough of 'em.
“But that’s what they do...”
Actually state driven executions are part of what the governor oversees. Part of the job.
wy69
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