Texas Executes 400th Person

.....and all that since only 1982! No other state even comes close! Just another proud achievement by the honorable citizens of the Lone Star State! And how appropriate that it was a person of the African-American persuasion! I'm pretty sure we blow everyone else away when it comes to putting blacks and hispanics to death.

Congratulations, Texas! You've earned the distinction as the execution capital of the "civilized" world!

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=84215

Any bets how long it takes us to get to 500? The over/under at the sports book at Mandalay Bay is June of 2011. I'm going for the under....especially as long as the republicans are in the governor's mansion. Keep signing those warrants, Mr. Perry! There are 379 more inmates on death row and you've only got another year and a half in office so keep that pen handy!

(tongue planted firmly in cheek for those who don't know me)

How's the crime rate? Texas must be a very safe place with all of those very bad guys gone.

I remember how disgusted I was with Bill Clinton who while running for President in 92 as gov of Arkansas,flew back from New Hampshire to sign death warrant on retarded death row inmate.He had gotten a lobotomy after a suicide attempt with a shot to the head.Clinton was just pandering to the blood thirsty and that was more disgusting than even getting a BJ lol.Still can't beleive with all the evidence of so many innocents who have ended up on death row that executions take place,not to mention it really puts us apart from all the other what we would term civilzed countries.very few other countries still have the death penalty and in fact many will refuse to give us someone who might face that here.Hopefully Texas and some other states will see the light soon.

ill go for the over. hopefully sites like this will quell the process

Here's to the next 400!
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How are the numbers when you factor in population? Texas is a huge state...

While I'm in favor of the death penalty, I don't know how great it is that Texas reached such a milestone. I mean, 400... that's a lot of death to be dealing out.

Maybe that should say something that capital crimes keep getting committed in Texas. After all, I doubt any of these folks were executed for jaywalking.

Oh, and before we condemn the US for being these bloodthirsty revenge-mongers, I'd like to point out that it's taken Texas 25 years to kill 400 people. That pales compared to say.... china, where they execute nearly triple that (or more) in one year. A quote:

Amnesty International estimates there were at least 1,770 executions in China in 2005 — vs. 60 in the United States, but the group says on its website that the toll could be as high as 8,000 prisoners.

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How many people were convicted of murder in Texas since 82?

hedonis said:

Oh, and before we condemn the US for being these bloodthirsty revenge-mongers, I'd like to point out that it's taken Texas 25 years to kill 400 people. That pales compared to say.... china, where they execute nearly triple that (or more) in one year. A quote:



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In this case, America is more pathetic because they are supposeded to be a free and just society. Outside of China, few would make such a claim about that country.

The next time I fill out a resume, I don't think when they ask if I have ever done illegal drugs if I fill in 'Yes' but then add, 'but I did far less then most people I knew at the time'; will help my cause too much. Nor should it.


The death penalty is disgusting. Not 'it disgusts me'. It IS disgusting. Those that do not feel that way just haven't evolved enough on that subject to yet see it.
No offense hedonis, I respect many of your posts. But that is what I truly think.

How many were...mentally deficient?

And how many were here illegally?

I don't know, but there's a whole lot of info on this page:

http://www.antideathpenalty.org/statistics.html

Of course, they keep abbreviating it with DP on this web page. Now that has a whole different connotation here at Freeones! :rofl:

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Those that do not feel that way just haven't evolved enough on that subject to yet see it.
No offense hedonis, I respect many of your posts. But that is what I truly think.

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Well, no offense taken. This is a subject where folks are quite divided, and though I think of myself as evolved, I will admit that it's a more primitive part of me that is ok with the death penalty.

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Of course, they keep abbreviating it with DP on this web page. Now that has a whole different connotation here at Freeones!

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I don't get the reference.

Here at Freeones, DP is more likely to be thought of as "Double Penetration" than it is to be "Death Penalty"

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Ahhhh...ok.

I'm having a blonde day. (Born a blonde, and I prove it at least once a day.)

I feel dumb.

hedonis said:

Well, no offense taken. This is a subject where folks are quite divided, and though I think of myself as evolved, I will admit that it's a more primitive part of me that is ok with the death penalty.

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Well, I am pleased that you took no offense and that you fully understood my meaning.

I don't like the death penalty on moral grounds myself, at least not where a criminal can be put safely behind bars the rest of his life. Long in the past it might have very well been necessary just as the only solution to keep people from hurting others again. I do think there is nothing legally that keeps people from getting executed like some people. Our government does have the right to do it whether people like it or not.

Part of the problem is the fact that the realistic standard for "beyond reasonable doubt" that some juries use is terrible. (Which in of itself is very flawed. The governments definition of that this is basically "proof of such a convincing character that you would be willing to rely and act upon it without hesitation in the most important of your own affairs". So basically the standard for putting people in prison for a long time or even killing them is subjective standard that's very own definition is a highly subjective definition in of itself.) I have read some studies that were done and it came out that realistically reasonable doubt meant that juries only had to be 70% sure. I would like to see criminal trials go to a different standard that amounts to "almost complete certainly to complete certainly" based on the evidence before you should be convicted. That still wouldn't mean I would like the death penalty on person grounds though.

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I don't get the reference.

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Looks like my little lady needs some porn education. Though she gamely tries to keep up with me, she's easily grossed out.:dunno:

there's some interesting stuff on wiki on the death penalty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty

including Most Executions carried out in 2006
1. China (at least 1,010 but sources suggest the real tally is between 7,500 and 8,000)[10]
2. Iran (177)
3. Pakistan (82)
4. Iraq (at least 65)
5. Sudan (at least 65)
6. United States (53)

and
Executions are known to have been carried out in the following 25 countries in 2006:
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, China, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, North Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, the United States of America, Vietnam, Yemen.[8]


now looking at those names i can only really pick japan and singapore as real developed and free countries, then maybe indonesia, malaysia
- it's just kinda interesting to see what company the US is in on this matter,
like Iran, China, Sudan, North Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia
- plenty of commies & religious fundamentalists in those countries, axis of evil etc, but most couldn't be described as lands of the free


and quite a contrast with all of the european union, australia, canada etc who don't execute people anymore

Great post blakey.

Interesting stats.