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This doesnt contribute to the OP's discussion but i thought i'd mention it anyway. Texas love executing people. Since 1976 Texas executed 498 people, the state
by TamDenholm 13y ago
This doesnt contribute to the OP's discussion but i thought i'd mention it anyway.
Texas love executing people. Since 1976 Texas executed 498 people, the state in second place is Virginia with 110. Also, their supreme court does not hear criminal matters, only civil, because it makes the appeals process for executing people faster.
But yeah, the law is a strange thing.
- blktiger 13y agoTexas has a little over 3x the population of Virginia with 4.5 times the number of executions. Keeping in mind that crime isn't necessarily consistent from place to place I don't think that is a drastically larger number proportionally.
- thedufer 13y agoThat's assuming, of course, that Virginia is at all representative of the US as a whole. The median execution rate by state is about 1 per million residents since 1976. Texas's, while not the highest, is almost 1 per 50,000 residents. Its not the worst, but its still something of an outlier. The worst, incidentally, is Oklahoma, at about 1 per 40,000 residents.
- hotpockets 13y agoRestating your numbers in consistent units (number per million) for easier comparison: Median 1 Texas 20 Ok 25
- pattisapu 13y ago> Also, their supreme court does not hear criminal matters, only civil, because it makes the appeals process for executing people faster. No. Texas simply has separate civil and criminal courts. The Court of Criminal Appeals is the supreme court for criminal cases. The Texas Supreme Court is the supreme court for civil cases. A convict can appeal through the intermediate appellate courts and then the Court of Criminal Appeals (and then perhaps later state-level collateral attack or even federal habeas). The criminal appellate process in Texas has as many steps in it as most states have.