Grim milestone looms for US death penalty: 1000th execution

AFP via Yahoo ^ | November 30 2005

[commonasdirt]

Grim? Certainly not. I would recommend they release a balloon cascade over #1000 and play some happy music.

[winner3000]

Quoting meaningless numbers is the new Left strategy to have something to write about. Why don't they keep track of the number of abortions? Isn't that a GRIM number? Instead of murdering criminals, these are innocent babies. Why do they always side with murderers and not babies?

How about keeping track of the number of people saved through the use of a gun for self-defense? Has anyone heard of such a number? Probably not. I don't. But thanks to the media I am aware at all times how many of our soldiers died in Iraq and now how many murderers have been executed by the US. Despicable!

[somerville]

Even Connecticut had an execution this year. They executed serial killer Michael Ross, who murdered my freshman college roommate.

The people in Connecticut - even the Democratic Attorney General - were overwhelmingly for it.

[cloud8]

Thanks for the citation.

[Redleg Duke]

You got it! :-)

[freedumb2003]

TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE! TOOKIE!

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[jjmcgo]

Liberals kill babies
and baby killers.

[NYCynic]

Here's one stat you won't see in the MSM:
At least 491,933 Murder victims from 1/1/1978 through 12/31/2002.

Source: DOJ, Bureau of Justice Statistics, FBI's Uniform Crime Reports http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/Search/Homicide/State/StateHomicide.cfm

NOTE: The actual total is much higher (perhaps as much as 50,000 higher) because data for several states from several years are unavailable i.e. Florida is missing data from 1988-1991 and from 1997-2002 and Kansas is missing data from 1993-1999, etc.