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Originally posted by sycamore
I'd be curious to see how the rate of executions has grown against the growth of the US population.
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Little appreciated is that state execution is limited to the more barbaric countries. For example, in Europe, Ukraine is denied application to the EU or other European organizations because they still have executions. Euthanasia is acceptable but state sponsored executions are not in Europe. Ukraine is in process of modifying their laws.
I would also like to see the rate of execuitions vs. the quality of legal representation. PBS made it obvious that TX has some of the poorest legal representation among death roll internees. IL stopped all executions because the Republican governor discovered that most executions were probably based upon trials conducted in violation of US legal procedures - if not just flawed. Of course I am asking for facts that we will never see - too contraversal.
As PBS noted, even if there was enough reason for a convict to have a DNA test, that test was denied by a TX system that does everything to keep its mistakes covered - even if that means execution. TX prosecutors who had reason to conduct DNA tests after a trial at someone elses expense simply refused to act - and said so to PBS Frontline.