Execution #1,000 coming right up!

casebro said:
Let me count on my fingers a bit....7,000 muders/year, x30 years,= 210,000 murders, means one murderer gassed for every 210 victims? I'd say the death penalty in a mite under utilized....but I ran out of fingers...I had to unzip to get to 21...fun with math?
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Unzipping, I can get to at least 2 millions...
 
North Carolina man becomes 1000th executed

Just after 2 a.m., a North Carolina man became the 1,000th person to be executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court upheld states' rights to order the death penalty in 1976. The somber moment drew a sizeable crowd to Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., to protest capital punishment.

Death penalty opponents marched outside Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C.
Kenneth Lee Boyd, 57, of Rockingham, N.C., died by lethal injection for the 1988 shootings of his estranged wife, Julie Curry Boyd, who was 36, and her father, Thomas Dillard Curry, 57. Members of both families had asked to be present.

Mr. Boyd's son, Kenneth Smith, 35, who visited his dad every day for the last two weeks, said in an interview on Thursday that he felt the attention paid to the milestone had hurt his father's chances for clemency.

Mr. Smith also said his dad was deeply troubled that he might only be remembered as a grim hash mark in the history books.

"He didn't want to be 999, and he didn't want to be 1001 if you know what I mean," said Mr. Smith. "He wanted to live."
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Beerina said:
Ironically, I'll bet that had the evidence been preserved, he would not have asked for a DNA test on it. But he escapes through a loophole thanks to idiot government employees (which I don't disagree with, though it is a shame the stuff was destroyed.)
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I'll take that bet.
 
"He didn't want to be 999, and he didn't want to be 1001 if you know what I mean," said Mr. Smith. "He wanted to live."
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Well, all he had to do is not kill some people.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
How come serial killers always have three names? :confused:
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I think it's to be polite to those with similar names. For example, there are surely a few Lee Oswalds, a few John Gacy's... etc. that way the name does not become ruined. Only the full name combination.
 
I don't know any person that does not have 3 names. G Carlin could use some testosterone. What is testerone?
 
you don't know me, but i only have 2 names. nothing in the middle, no confirmation name, nothing there.
 
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