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State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: corbe on December 16, 2017, 06:57:22 pm
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Why Texas’ ‘death penalty capital of the world’ stopped executing people
by Phil McCausland
Since the Supreme Court legalized capital punishment in 1976, Harris County, Texas, has executed 126 people. That's more executions than every individual state in the union, barring Texas itself.
Harris County's executions account for 23 percent of the 545 people Texas has executed. On the national level, the state alone is responsible for more than a third of the 1,465 people put to death in the United States since 1976.
In 2017, however, the county known as the "death penalty capital of the world" and the "buckle of the American death belt" executed and sentenced to death an astonishing number of people: zero.
(https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2017_50/2263066/number_of_executions_between_2000-2017_the_united_states_texas_harris_county_chartbuilder_8a62cc520e6ffbae4480cedf31ee36ed.nbcnews-ux-600-480.png)
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https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/why-texas-death-penalty-capital-world-stopped-executing-people-n830276 (https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/why-texas-death-penalty-capital-world-stopped-executing-people-n830276)
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Lots of problems within that article.
One is they attempt to muddy the water people given the death penalty and those actually executed.
An honest reporter from NBC (if one exists) would have not just looked into assignment of the death penalty or numbers of executions, but compared these trends with how many murders are committed.
Such as this one, which demonstrates the prosecutors who do not seek the death penalty actually do not deter murders from happening.
Houston 1 of 3 cities driving national murder rate higher, report says
https://www.click2houston.com/news/investigates/houston-1-of-3-cities-driving-national-murder-rate-higher-report-says (https://www.click2houston.com/news/investigates/houston-1-of-3-cities-driving-national-murder-rate-higher-report-says)
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They will also never admit that all of the cities leading the murder rates, much less the crime rates in general, are run by leftist, liberal Democrats. Name one city with a republican mayor in the top of the stats.