Somewhat Shocking Stats on Shrub's Executing Ways

[jmowreader]

It's no secret to anyone that George W. Bush really likes to kill people, and unlike most other mass murderers he doesn't seem to have a favorite method. He likes executions. He likes ignoring drowning people. He really likes war, and he's not averse to ignoring terrorists while they're attacking.

What you may not realize is just how MUCH he likes executing people, so allow me to enlighten you.

Wikipedia has a chart (at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States) showing the number of executions each state that has the death penalty has performed since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1979. To date, there have been 1042 executions performed in the US in all that time. Texas, all by itself, is responsible for 373 of them--36 percent of the total. That's almost four times the number of executions performed in the closest state--Virginia, with 97.

Of that 373, George W. Bush is responsible for 154 of them--42 percent of all Texas executions. Add the two executed federal prisoners whose death warrants Bush signed, and you come up to a total lethal-injection body count of 156 souls. (I'm not counting Timothy McVeigh, who was sentenced to death on Clinton's watch but was executed in the most macabre reality show ever during Dubya's reign of terror.) That's fifteen percent of all the people who've been executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1979.

Oh...his brother's state? Florida's a piker, man. They only executed sixty people--about a sixth of Texas' total, and Jeb isn't responsible for all sixty.

[kurth]

1. Evil bloodthirst

from the worst sack-of-shit president in modern U.S. history.

[DemInDistress]

2. how ironic,,bush as gov. pardoned only 1 dude..henry lee lucas

strange as it seems lucas was America's most prolific serial killer with suspected ties to poppy bush. lucas must have done some contract killings for poppy including the Brownsville tx. massacre where 17 members of a cult that dimson belonged to were murdered and skinned.
Three days later a wandering dimson came out of the woods to not know what happened. the d.a. refused to prosecute or go forward with the case poppy bush was VP at the time..

who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of the bushes..

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/308911.shtml

[ThomWV]

3. I knew the numbers were bad, I didn't know they were that bad.

I had it in my mind he had signed off on one twenty something in texas, I didn't know about the two federal ones since.

Know what I think about the death penalty? I don't much care for it. I don't think the state should be in the business of killing its own people - ever. But I understand that there are some people who have committed crimes so horrible that to be put to death by the society they prayed on is something I can live with. Pretty rare event. How rare would it be? Well, Jeffery Dahlmer didn't bother me, Bundy would be another. But it takes that kind of horror for me to agree that no injustice had been done or that the state's action was not warranted. As an old friend used to put it, "some people just need killin'". I don't disagree.