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DO Mess with Texas! | 224 comments (224 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

It's even worse: I think Texas, these days, handles well over half the death penalty cases. Even states which allow the death penalty seem to be in the process of silently phasing it out. Texas, on the other hand, just keeps going.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Aug 26th, 2007 at 11:50:44 AM EST

Re: DO Mess with Texas! (4.00 / 3)

According to Texas Death Penalty Education and Resource Center, Texas has performed 36.5% of all the executions in the US after 1976. That's quite a percentage.

You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--

by tzt (tztmail at gmail dot com) on Sun Aug 26th, 2007 at 12:20:58 PM EST
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