2% of US counties are responsible for majority of US excecutions

[Sasha]

The democratic system working at its finest: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4037861

[Urning]

What a waste of time reading this article was. How does it in any way highlight the failure of the democratic system anyway, as per your comment?

This article is very disingenuous and misleading. It doesn't take into account counties in states that don't have a death penalty statute. Nor does it take into account that population numbers differ county to county. LA County has almost 10 million inhabitants, Loving County in Texas has 82, Kalawao County in Hawaii has 90, Arthur County in Nebraska has 460. Get my point? The only thing this article tells us is what anyone with half a brain would assume: the great metropolitan counties which are far more populous than regular counties are responsible for the majority of executions in the US. The 3 named counties in that article, LA County, Dallas County and Harris County are home to 16,584,628 people, or, in other words, approximately 5% of the American population. And that's just 3 counties. The article says: 2% of counties responsible for most executions? There are 3,142 counties in the country. 2% of that is 62.

The 62 most populous counties in the states that have death penalty statutes are responsible the majority of executions in said states? No shit, Sherlock?

[DasFapital]

Most of those seem to be concentrated in the most violent region of the country. So much for an effective deterrent