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On 10/1/11 8:50 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:58:21 -0400, X `
wrote:

On 10/1/11 4:45 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:06:20 -0400, X `
wrote:

States with the most executions since 1976:

Texas has had 475
Virginia, 109
Oklahoma, 96
Florida, 69
Missouri, 68
Alabama, 54
Georgia, 52
Ohio, 45
North Carolina, 43
South Carolina, 43
Louisiana, 28

Executions in large numbers are mostly a Southern thing. The government
of Missouri tried to secede. Oklahoma is as backwards a state as any of
those in the South.

Bloodthirsty. Fundamentalist. Executions.

If you toss Texas as the runaway "hang'm high" state the worst one on
the list is Virginia, far from a southern state. Most of the
population basically lives in the DC metro area. They are blue and
host the richest city (Falls Church) and the 2 richest counties
(Fairfax and Loudoun) in the US..
When you also factor in population, they are almost as bad as Texas
and blow out a state like Florida that has 2.5 times the population
and about 60% of the number of executions.
So much for the idea that this is just a terra cotta tooth redneck
thing.

Uh, Virginia *is* a Southern state. The capital of the confederacy was
in Richmond for most of the war. I agree that parts of Northern Virginia
are blue. Virginia, however, elected two right-wing crackpots this last
go-around as governor and attorney general. The states that execute the
most people are in the South, for the most part. Period. Progressive
states have few, if any, executions, regardless of population.

Virginia is basically DC. The civil war was a long time ago. Where you
live was tobacco plantations during the civil war.
Ohio was on your list and that is about as north as you can get. It is
right across the lake from Canada.

I said executions were "mostly" a southern thing. That would allow the
inclusion of Ohio.

I don't buy your posit on Virginia. It is still a southern state.

Always leaving yourself an out.