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Death Row: Big number, no meaning

exonerees Death Row: Big number, no meaning By Randy Schultz Palm Beach Post Editorial Page Editor Sunday, May 11, 2008 Florida's Death Row is a fraud. As of last week, 385 people were under sentence of death - 237 white men, 134 black men, 13 men of other races or ethnicities and one white woman. Now that the Supreme Court has blessed the most common method of lethal injection, Florida can resume the executions that Jeb Bush halted in December 2006 because of problems with the injection of Angel Diaz.But let's assume that Florida began killing 12 inmates a year. That's a ridiculously high guess; the state hasn't killed more than eight people in any year since 1979. Even at that rate, however, it would take a decade to kill less than one-third of those on Death Row...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).