Chart 'O the Day: executions

Chart 'O the Day: executions

by digby


They look like blood stains. Which they are:


People executed 1977-2014 Texas 512 Virginia 110 Oklahoma 110 Florida 85 http://t.co/RvJOBTLF4F pic.twitter.com/Dk3IKKieX6
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) June 29, 2014



Also interesting to note that a disproportionate number of those executions were of African American men.