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DemonHunter's avatar

“…with Texas in first place and Oklahoma at No. 2. (Oklahoma, with its much smaller population, actually has a higher execution rate than Texas does.)”

This is not how you calculate the rate of execution.

One must compare the number of executed inmates to the total population of death row inmates not the population of the whole state.

This is the same error that claims blacks are sentenced to death at a higher rate than whites. The statistic compares DP by national percentage of black people ~13% rather than comparing that number to the total number of convicted murderers.

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Anybody who streams content has seen a zillion mysteries/court cases of Hollywood story-telling and love to speculate on cases like this. Having covered a few murder trials, I saw where law enforcement's judgement is not a perfect record, with complex individual motives and bias that can rival the criminal's; but Glossip went from a role of promising hospitality management to a descent into motel hell. His actions after the event were despicable, but testimony alone is probably a weak death penalty case. As to this case abolishing the death penalty, keep wishing. It serves a noble purpose that many times expresses the wishes of the victim's family, who has been exponentially hurt for decades compared to the perpetrator(s). If you have ever spent time with criminals in a jail, after getting hit up for cigarettes/drugs, they will ALL proclaim their innocence.

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