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In a Bad Crowd

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle.  The subtitle is, "If Texas were a nation, it would be the world?s seventh most prolific executioner."Last week?s headlines on stories reporting an Amnesty International study of global use of the death penalty in 2009 focused on the world?s top executioner. The People?s Republic of China put at least 1,718 people to death, more than the rest of the world combined. The Chinese government treats information about the number of people it kills as a state secret whose divulgence is itself a criminal offense. There are 68 different crimes punishable by the death penalty in China, some of them nonviolent offenses. And:And then there is the fifth most prolific user of state-sanctioned killing: the United States, with 52 executions in 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).