Poet Robert Frost - a poem “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
and
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.”
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Most
The modern death penalty era began in 1977.
Texas has been responsible for the most executions over recent years by far, with 586 since 1977 as of the end of 2023. The states with the next-highest totals are Oklahoma (123 since 1977), Virginia (113), Florida (105) and Missouri (97). Then-Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed legislation abolishing the death penalty in Virginia in 2021, making it the first Southern state to do so. source
Federal
The Trump administration's Department of Justice announced its plans to resume executions for federal crimes in 2019. On July 14, 2020, Daniel Lewis Lee became the first inmate executed by the federal government since 2003. Thirteen federal death row inmates were executed, all under Trump. The last and most recent federal execution was of Dustin Higgs, who was executed on January 16, 2021. On July 1, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that a moratorium on the federal death penalty was being reinstated. As of March 2024, there were 40 inmates on federal death row. Source
With And Without
Curious how this map in many ways reflects the red state blue state divide.
States with and without the death penalty – 2024
Kakistocracy
kakistocracy /kăk″ĭ-stŏk′rə-sē, kä″kĭ-/ -noun
1. Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
2. Government by the worst men.
3. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
1. Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
2. Government by the worst men.
3. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Margin
Heather Cox Richardson - "…it turns out that Trump did not win 50% of the vote, and CNN statistician Harry Enten notes that his margin comes in at 44th out of the 51 elections that have been held since 1824. He also had very short coattails—four Democrats won in states Trump carried—and the Republicans have the smallest House majority since there have been 50 states, despite the help their numbers have had from the extreme gerrymandering in states like North Carolina."
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