[YankeeinOkieville]

Virginia: #2 behind Texas in dispatching slime such as the D.C. area snipers. Get the "special juice" ready.

Not according to the DOJ. Virginia is down the list a ways - but still on it. By actual executions Tx is #1 and OK is #2, by per capita: OK is #1, MO (6/5.6 mil.) is #2(7/3.5 million) but TX 13/21.0 Mil.) and VA (4/7.2 mil.) are still on the list.

From the DOJ statistics site: "In 2002, 71 persons in 13 States were executed -- 33 in Texas; 7 in Oklahoma, 6 in Missouri; 4 each in Georgia and Virginia, 3 each in Florida, South Carolina, and Ohio; 2 each in Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina; and 1 each in Louisiana and California."

[YankeeinOkieville]

just caught that: TX (33/21 mil.) still behind OK - as is their football team.

[quark]

Good statistics. The ranking I cite is total number of executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976: #1 Texas with 310; #2 Virginia with 89. Your numbers deal with per capita rates and the number of executions by state in 2002. We're on the same wavelength.