I think Albie was wondering if the lives of government employees are worth more than the rest of us “
...precisely. No death penalties since 2007 then the guard puts them over the edge? What about rape and murder combined? That surely has happened in SD since 2007. Women and children first if anything.
No, please see post 10. SD is doing a second execution within a few weeks. SD has very few people on death row and the hurdles for these cases have been cleared. While it seems like there has been an uptick over the past decade, SD probably has fewer murders in a year than Chicago does on an average weekend. I will have to look at the statistics.