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Where the Death Penalty Is Imposed - A Remarkable Graphic

By Steve Hall

If you haven't been watching Second Class Justice, take a look.  In the short time it has been up, there is first-class content. I particularly want to highlight the post, "90% of counties in the country have imposed no death sentences for the last 6 years," by Rob Smith.  The graphic is remarkable.  It's a must-see and a must-read: Death Penalty Usage Maps 2004-2009 Here's a snippet from the post. The maps above detail each death sentence issued in a state prosecution between 2004-2009. One of the maps details all federal death sentences since the modern death penalty was established in 1988. These figures include re-sentences to death (after a person?s first sentence was reversed by an appellate court), so, if anything, these maps are overly generous to those who believe that American juries (as opposed to a small handful of jurisdictions) regularly sentence to death people who commit first-degree murder...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 15, 2010 (boomark / email).