Interesting stastistics on US death penalty

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• They've reached 1000 executions since they reintroduced the death penalty, but look how they're split up by state. Texas is by FAR the highest, with good old George Bush as its governor.

US EXECUTIONS SINCE 1976
Texas - 355
Virginia - 94
Oklahoma - 79
Missouri - 66
Florida - 60
Georgia - 39
North Carolina - 38
South Carolina, Alabama - 34 each
Louisiana, Arkansas - 27 each
Arizona - 22
Ohio - 19
Indiana - 16
Delaware - 14
Illinois - 12
Nevada, California - 11 each
Mississippi, Utah - 6 each
Maryland, Washington - 4 each
Nebraska, Pennsylvania - 3 each
Kentucky, Montana, Oregon - 2 each
Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, New Mexico, Tennessee, Wyoming - 1 each
US government - 3
Source: US Death Penalty Information Center

what does each mean? And did they execute that man who had been nominate for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work educating teenagers about the dangers of gangs yet?

That's where there's more than one state with the same number - e.g. Maryland, Washington, 4 each

Doh! Of course...

edam I think that case is still under review for clemency/acquittal/pardon/conversion
its under Schwarzennegger though I think?
California - 11 each