U.S. Nears 1,000th Execution Since 1977

Associated Press ^ | Nov 24, 2005 | BRADLEY BROOKS

[baystaterebel]

Thats it? Man, we are slacking!

[WorkingClassFilth]

It's a good start, though.

[brivette]

Right you are.

[DoughtyOne]

Hey, California has over 600 on death row. Let's see if we can break 2,000 by the end of 2006.

[ElkGroveDan]

Just wondering how many innocent people have been murdered in the US since 1977? Don't suppose the AP thought of including that statistic for a comparison did they?

[dfwgator]

Next!

[Liberfighter]

Exactly. Here in Singapore we average about 40 a year. Or one every 9 days.

China kills around 2000 a year. No AP story on that one.

[reagan_fanatic]

Hey, why not poll the victims of those on death row and find out how they feel about the number of executions in the U.S.?

Oh right - we can't. THEY'RE DEAD.

[Lancey Howard]

It just doesn't seem like very many. Roughly 36 executions per year, on average, since 1977.
That's lame for a nation this big.

[digger48]

They sho do like counting the dead, don't they?

'cept when talking about babies.

[prophetic]

Compared to the thousands of murders committed every year by a small percentage of the population who are the repeat offenders; and yet we hear the liberals saying its "Old Fashioned and Archaic" to execute murderers but they want to have these criminals live at taxpayers expense and not pay the ultimate price for their crimes.

Mind you, I'm all for mercy in the law and some murders are crimes of passion but the real hardcore killers should be dealt with as a menace to society.

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, no AP can't report that.

[Lancey Howard]

Isn't it interesting how we're seeing "execution" stories again?
It must be part of the scumbag "mainstream" liberal news media's "Save Tookie" campaign.

[GregoTX]

"Thats it? Man, we are slacking!"

Yep .. we are. Its just a drop in the bucket when you look at all the muderering trash we have. At least Tookie Williams is on the way out.

[Paleo Conservative]

We're not just slacking, we're falling further behind.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Multiply that times about 45,000 and you have the number of unborn who were sentenced to death without so much as a hearing.

[putupjob]

The 1000th should launch a big candle light vigil with Cindy Sheehan leading the lament that this country isn't worth dying for.

[11Bush]

Just wondering how many innocent people have been murdered in the US since 1977?

Just a conservative 25,000 per year, and that is a low number for the last 10 or so years, gives a nice round 700,000.

How many of those were innocent, excluding drug/game crime, is still hundreds of thousands.

Guess I will not loose any sleep over the 2000 dead murderers.

[deport]

Of the total executions carried out to date nationally since the ban was lifted Texas has 355 of them with one more scheduled in 2005 for the first week in Dec.

[Jeff Chandler]

It's a quagmire! Time to pull out.