Nationally, some counties are responsible for more executions than others.
While the governor of the country’s most populous state halted death penalty executions, that decision may not have a national impact.
There are 30 states that have the death penalty in the U.S., though four of those states – now including California – have governors who have issued suspensions on executions.New Hampshire has the death penalty, but hasn't executed anyone since 1939. Jennifer Laurin, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was the chair of the task force assembled by the American Bar Association that worked on their 2013 assessment on Texas' use of the death penalty. The group’s report found that "the state’s death penalty system falls far short."
Beyond the quality of the defendant’s representation, another factor is how determined the lawyer on the other side of the courtroom was to get a death penalty sentence. McCann said that one major change came in 2005 when Texas introduced the sentencing option of life in prison without the possibility of parole. According to apublication, Texas was one of only four states that did not have that sentencing option when they made the switch.
There has been something of a slowdown in the rate of executions in Harris County in recent years, both before and during Ogg’s administration.In 1997, Harris County executed 11 people, and in the mid-2000s, there were two consecutive years where nine people were executed. But since 2010, there have been three or fewer people executed each year in the county.
McCann echoed that – while not unique to Texas – the origin and use of the death penalty are tied to "mostly racism and corruption, but that’s my personal view."
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