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Since 1976, there have been nearly 1,400 executions in the United States. More than a third of those have taken place in Texas. The state has nearly five times as many executions (518) over that period as the place with the second-highest number of executions (Oklahoma, with 112), according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The number of executions and the number of states actually executing inmates continued to decline last year. There were executions in just seven states, about a third as many states carried out executions in 1999. Texas executed 10 inmates in 2014, tying Missouri for the most in the country. Last year was the 18th consecutive year the state executed at least 10 inmates; Missouri is the only other state to reach that number so far this decade.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:30:21 +0000

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