Date sent: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:26:59 -0400 Send reply to: "Hank Roth's PNEWS CONFERENCES" From: Tim Kuchta Subject: Re: [PN] Our All-American Boy To: PNEWS-L@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU > Suggest that you look at the stats, Kuchta. You do, indeed, execute the most > in Texas AND have the highest murder rate, but it is not the good ole boys OK, Ed. These are from the US Department of Justice, and are good to 1993. Looks like the good ole boys are edging out the competition in both the "already dead" and "gonna be dead" catagories: *During 1993, 38 men were executed: 18 were non-Hispanic and white 13 were non-Hispanic and black 1 was Native American 4 were white and Hispanic 2 had an unknown Hispanic origin (1 white and 1 black). *The average time between sentencing and yearend 1993 for the 2,716 inmates was 6 years and 1 month. *Of persons under sentence of death-- 1,566 (57.7%) were white 1,109 (40.8%) were black 22 (0.8%) were Native American 16 (0.6%) were Asian American 3 were classified as "other race." *The 206 Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for 8.1% of inmates with a known ethnicity. kuchta kuchta@gamma.is.tcu.edu