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Why does Texas put SO FEW people to death, compared to the number of murders in Texas?
The state of Texas has around 1,200 murders per year, but it only executes around 20 people per year.
20 out of 1,200?
I'm sorry, but that's just unacceptably low. What about the hundreds and hundreds of other murderers who don't face the death penalty? Why isn't Texas cracking down on those guys?
Sadly, Texas actually has a murder rate ABOVE the national average, and a large part of this must be blamed on the low number of people who are actually executed.
Will Texas ever step its game up, or what?
I live here in Houston, and we have gangbangers shooting each other all the time, and it seems like a lot of them aren't even ARRESTED, let alone prosecuted, convicted, sentenced to death, then executed.
12 Answers
- Susan SLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Perhaps resorting to the death penalty has prevented Texans from looking for better ways to reduce crime rates.
Maybe the non death penalty states have figured out something Texas hasn't.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You have a ton of blacks and Hispanics. They don't like cold -- there's your advice for today. You're welcome.
@lamplighter: Get out of here, you bigoted Canuck. Tell me, what's the difference in tolerance between this guy not being able to stand "gangbangers" and you hating everyone in "Texas"? You bigot POS, mind your own business.
- realityjunkieLv 71 decade ago
Courts, years of appeals, lawyers, former convictions.
The US has executed innocent people. Others have been released from prison after DNA proves them to be innocent. Since 1973, 123 people in 25 states have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence.
Source(s): Against the death penalty - Anonymous1 decade ago
I'm surprised at those statistics. I thought Texas was pretty hard core. I agree that premeditated, cold blooded murder should always warrant the death penalty.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
The bleeding heart democrats are everywhere, including in Texas. remember, the democrat party supports the killing of a baby before it's born and then supports the abolishing of the death penalty. The democrat party also supports homosexual marriage.
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- 1 decade ago
Its not like they try to execute people. It makes you feel very bad, even if it is a heartless criminal.
- 1 decade ago
Welcome to the new world order. They think they will get order out of chaos. When it gets really bad they might even try and take our guns.
