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60 Percent of Executions Happen in Texas
The New York Times ^
| 12-26-2007
| ADAM LIPTAK
Posted on 12/26/2007 7:08:55 PM PST by Baladas
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To: festus
Is that the “express lane” Tater Salad spoke of?
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:20:42 PM PST
by
Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
(If MY people who are called by MY name -- the ball's in our court, folks.)
To: Eaker
more than 60 percent of all American executions took place in Texas. That doesn't even count the freelance ones arising from home defense.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:21:46 PM PST
by
humblegunner
(My KungFu is ten times power.©)
To: Marie2
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:22:12 PM PST
by
deport
(--- 8 days Iowa Caucuses--- 13 days New Hampshire votes--- [ Meanwhile:-- Cue Spooky Music--])
To: humblegunner; Eaker; Squantos
Texas will always have a special place in this Yankee’s heart.
To: freedom4me
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:23:22 PM PST
by
GregoTX
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: Marie2
Any correlation with a lower murder rate?100% of those executed never murder again.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:23:36 PM PST
by
OCC
To: Baladas
We’re Number One! We’re Number One! ...
To: Baladas
We have 15 to 20 thousand murders per year in the US. When we reach at least 10 thousand executions per year we will learn if it is a deterent.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:25:42 PM PST
by
umgud
(no more subprime politicians)
To: Baladas
(Dec. 26) -- This years death penalty bombshells a de facto national moratorium, a state abolition and the smallest number of executions in more than a decade have masked what may be the most significant and lasting development. For the first time in the modern history of the death penalty, more than 60 percent of all American executions took place in Texas. Thanks for the good news NY Times. I bet it just pisses you off that there is still a state in the Union that has the balls to execute criminals.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:27:07 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(It's only arrogance if you can't back it up.)
To: Baladas
"...
more than 60 percent of all American executions took place in Texas." So? If you don't want to risk a death sentence, kill somebody in New York. Or Massachusetts. Or Illinois. Problem solved, and I'm not even an "I'm smarter than you dumb hicks" New York lawyer.
And FTR, I, too, am tired of doing the heavy lifting for the rest of the country.
To: kcvl
have masked what may be the most significant and lasting development.Texas does nothing to change what it already does and there is this significant development? This is truly idiotic. It figures he's a secular humanist lawyer. Not a very good writer either (IMHO).
To: GregoTX
http://www.langleycreations.com/photo/deathpenalty/livingston/deathrow.jpg That is one scary building complex to walk into. I was always nervous I'd get stuck in there from an admin error.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:29:14 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(It's only arrogance if you can't back it up.)
To: Larry Lucido
There are only two certainties in life: death and Texas.
;^)
It’s a disappointing stat: why should the Lone Star State have to shoulder such a disproportionate burden of the need for final justice?
To: Baladas
Why doesn’t the MSM focus on the percentage of crimes committed against innocent Americans by illegal aliens, instead of the percentage of executions of murderers in Texas.
To: humblegunner
That doesn't even count the freelance ones arising from home defense. You're right...Texas is getting jipped on the numbers!
To: miketheprof
New Jersey’s Number Fifty! New Jersey’s Number Fifty!
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:31:31 PM PST
by
Baladas
To: GregoTX
Why the comfortable-looking pillow on the execution place?
Why not just strap the perp’s forehead flat to the death gurney, so that he can be made to gaze helplessly upward at a projected ceiling image of the GATES OF HELL!!?
To: Baladas; pax_et_bonum; TheMom; humblegunner; Eaker; Xenalyte
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:37:58 PM PST
by
Allegra
(HOME for the Holidays! Merry Christmas to my "family" back in Iraq.)
To: elcid1970
I doubt their victims had it so good. No comfortable pillows for the victims no doubt.
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:40:58 PM PST
by
kcvl
To: Baladas
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posted on
12/26/2007 7:42:25 PM PST
by
chesley
(Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
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