The runaway US execution counties

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3161, 2018, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A handful of hotspots carry out a disproportionate number of executions in the US, despite not having particularly high rates of murder. Instead, human bias seems to have led a small number of counties to become far more likely than others to execute. The death penalty is legal in 31 of the 50 US states, where it is handed down to some people convicted of murder. Now an analysis of data from the 38 years since 1977 has identified the US counties that account for most of the country's executions. During that time, 1422 people were executed, 513 of them in Texas