Dec. 1, Rick Halperin, director of the SMU Embrey Human Rights Program, for a piece along with co-author Roger Barnes about Texas being “ground zero” in the U.S. for carrying out capital punishment. Published in the Dallas Morning News: http://bit.ly/37XAwM4
Thus far in 2019, there have been 20 executions carried out in the United States.
Eight of them have been in Texas.
There are four more executions scheduled in the country by year’s end, and one of them is to be carried out in Texas. Since the death penalty in the U.S. was reinstated in 1976, there have been a total of 1,510 executions. A staggering 566 of them have been in Texas.
In other words, Texas has been ground zero for capital punishment for over 40 years. . .