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- rmd34, on 12/26/2007, -5/+99I hate when they toss percentages around to exaggerate a story. Bottom line: "Of the 42 executions in the last year, 26 were in Texas." The others... spread out among 9 other states.
According to the article, about 300 people were executed in 1998. So the nation is down to 42 total. This is the real story. - umdmatto, on 12/26/2007, -13/+73The majority of US executions in 2007 were carried out in Texas…..I am Jack’s total lack of surprise.
- wonderchemist, on 12/26/2007, -13/+69Better question, how many were innocent?
- Bukowsky, on 12/26/2007, -19/+73So, I went to school in Huntsville,TX and in 2001, I went on a prison tour of the 'Walls' Unit, where the death bed is. They took us all around the prison, including into the execution chamber, which is a small, teal room with a couple of windows, and a bed. I was standing about four feet from the bed where they stick the needle in the prisoners arm, and then put them to sleep. It was a very, very creepy feeling to know that HUNDREDS of people died in this room, on this bed that was right in front of me...
...I love living in Texas, but this is one statistic that I am not very proud of. - Bukowsky, on 12/26/2007, -12/+53I'm born & raised in Texas, and i *****' hate the Bush Family. And there are ALOT of people down here who are pretty fed up with Bush.
- inactive, on 12/26/2007, -19/+56if you're going to kill someone, you should probably do it in another state...
- morningmatters, on 12/26/2007, -6/+39Yet TX still has average if not higher crime rates compared to the other states. I am actually somewhat supportive of the death penalty because of my own twisted view of justice but it would be silly to argue that death penalty deters crimes.
- tattokris, on 12/26/2007, -9/+42No we don't
- fauxpaw, on 12/26/2007, -41/+71Reason #4,218 I'm trying to get the hell out of this state.
- Frostman3D, on 12/27/2007, -12/+38Maybe that's because they commit more violent crime? I've been robbed 3 times.
Guess how many of them were white? 0
Guess how many were Black? 3
Guess how many were Hispanic? 0
Guess how many were Other? 0
Black people are far more likely to commit a violent crime.
It's not racism, it's called "the truth" - Oculus, on 12/26/2007, -1/+27FTA
“Texas’ reputation as a death-prone state should rest on its many murders and on its willingness to execute death-sentenced inmates,” the authors of the study, Theodore Eisenberg, John H. Blume and Martin T. Wells, wrote. “It should not rest on the false belief that Texas has a high rate of sentencing convicted murderers to death.” - z00mz00mz00m, on 12/27/2007, -6/+28If you kill someone in Texas, Texas will kill you back... as Ron White said:
If more than three people saw you do what you did you don't sit on death row for 15 years Jack, you go straight to the front of the line. Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty. My state's puttin in an express lane. - Ndiggnation, on 12/26/2007, -1/+20Good thing he's from CT.
- chentastic, on 12/26/2007, -13/+31why? what criminal act did you commit?
- blindhammer, on 12/26/2007, -5/+23I feel bad for Austin.
- insane11, on 12/26/2007, -3/+20It's people like you that make others hate Ron Paul. Just stop already, you're not helping him at all.
- inactive, on 12/27/2007, -8/+25now if only the rest of the country could learn how to follow suit...
- aratika, on 12/27/2007, -2/+17The death penalty is just self-defense after the fact. It may not be a deterrent...but it does tend to curb recidivism. ;)
- daoism, on 12/26/2007, -15/+30No big surprise. George W. Bush during his six years as governor of Texas presided over 152 executions, more than any other governor in the recent history of the United States.
- 68024, on 12/27/2007, -2/+16Perfect argument for essentially saying, "the death penalty does not work as a deterrent".
- Ajajadude, on 12/26/2007, -4/+17Yeah. If Ron Paul was president, we'd have a No Escape situation: corporations would be running the prison system and executing people.
- geddon, on 12/26/2007, -15/+28My point was that Texas is merely one aspect of a culture of violence, whereby the United States leads the world in prison population, and is one of the few remaining industrialized nations to practice state-sanctioned murder. We threaten violence in hundreds of countries across the globe through our persistent military presence, and have yet to cease fire for nearly 250 years.
But I highly doubt that means much to someone who uses the term 'ragheads.' - Bogart, on 12/27/2007, -6/+19In the words of Ron White, "Most states are trying to abolish the death penalty, my state's putting in an express lane..."
God Bless Texas. - 68024, on 12/27/2007, -1/+14That is, let me qualify this comment - 125 people who were freed from death row, because they turned out to be innocent.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/CRIME/12/20/death.penalty. ...
How many were put to death... we'll probably never know. - Ajajadude, on 12/26/2007, -2/+15That might have to do with a lot of states suspending their executions for the time being.
- drbadass, on 12/26/2007, -1/+14i hate that we get lumped in with so many of the negatives of our state. you should see our county-by-county voting results maps for federal elections. travis county is a little blue island in a sea of red. kinda funny to look at.
- thebza451, on 12/27/2007, -7/+20good for Texas, I wish California killed more than 1 death row inmate every 3 years...
- windyridge, on 12/26/2007, -7/+19We won't ever know because many are put to death that may have been innocent. The case often dies with them. New technologies sometimes emerge years later that may prove things that couldn't be proven before, but the person is dead..
- inactive, on 12/26/2007, -1/+13I reported you as a giant waste of skin and bones.
- inactive, on 12/27/2007, -2/+14i live in chicago, been mugged 2x both by black dudes, and everyone i know that has gotten mugged its always been by the brothas. i wish i could say i had a more progressive alternative way to look at the problem but the facts dont lie
- jfowler27, on 12/27/2007, -0/+12I understand what you are saying. I don't like the idea of wasting my tax dollars on keeping people in prison and especially spending more than I make a year on keeping high-profile criminals in maximum security type of prisons. What I also don't like is killing possibly innocent people. So, I'm not sure what a good solution would be about the whole death penalty situation. We definitely could save some money by ending/reducing the war on drugs and not keeping non-violent criminals in in jail for mandatory minimum sentences.
- Frostman3D, on 12/27/2007, -1/+12You know what? I've been poor as *****, but I've never robbed anybody and never will. There's a cure for what ills these people.... it's called... A job!
- thefirelane, on 12/26/2007, -11/+22Thank you for being a perfect example of how conservative southerners just don't seem to understand that Democracy isn't primarily mob rule, but should protect rights of the minority as well (you'd think they'd have learned after being wrong on this one, oh, EVERY SINGLE TIME)
- Sil369, on 12/27/2007, -1/+12What's reason #1?
- 68024, on 12/27/2007, -2/+13About 125, since 1976 (according to CNN)
- Frostman3D, on 12/27/2007, -0/+11But now we know where you are, and we're coming to get you.
- dwalker20, on 12/26/2007, -18/+29Reason #4,218 I'm trying to get the hell in to this state
- Frostman3D, on 12/26/2007, -12/+22Well, most of us take it kinda personal when a piece of human filth breaks into someones home and rapes a 6 year old girl, cuts off her little brothers genitals and feeds them to her, sets her mother on fire and laughs as she runs out the door. Some people are ***** on the heel of Society, and all you can do is wipe the ***** off.
- pintomp3, on 12/27/2007, -4/+14how many of them came from poor communities? poor people are far more likely to commit a violent crime.
- there, on 12/26/2007, -20/+29Pretty shameful that some Americans still support executions and torture. It's like something out of the dark ages.
- fkr3, on 12/26/2007, -3/+12What's holding you back? I only need one good reason to leave a place and I'll pack my ***** up and go....
- ringo380, on 12/27/2007, -0/+9Reason #1 that I love this state.
- gbarberi, on 12/26/2007, -1/+10Spam and I believe illegal.
Definitely a spammer. I checked the comments on your account; I'll ask Digg staff to do the same. - Fanrir, on 12/26/2007, -11/+20Yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaw!
- jgtg32a, on 12/27/2007, -3/+11Please tell me you made that up.
- inactive, on 12/27/2007, -2/+10How is someone who rapes a child or murders a family of four any less worthy of the death penalty than a dictator who murders millions, both are sociopaths you cannot cure of their sickness.
- siraether, on 12/26/2007, -19/+27Good for Texas.
- jgtg32a, on 12/27/2007, -5/+13Wrong its racism if its about a minority no mater what, its the truth when it about a white person.
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Its just sad - colonelbuckshot, on 12/26/2007, -4/+12Ethnic minorities are hit pretty hard by the death penalty in Texas, representing over 70% of the executions.
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/racial.htm - dsiv, on 12/27/2007, -0/+8I have a few problems with your model of justice, but one thing that jumps out at me is the notion that people who cannot pay restitution should go to jail.
1) If the goal is providing compensation to the victims, how will someone possibly do that while serving time. Seems highly contradictory. Whatever wages they could earn in your proposed labor camps would pail in comparison to what they could earn in even a low paying job in the real world.
2) I'd hate for our country to have two systems of punishment: one for the rich, another for the poor. Aside from the question of fairness there is the question of how one would deter the rich from committing crimes. -
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