{"id":3852,"date":"2012-12-28T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2012-12-28T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:28:22","slug":"florida-leads-nation-in-death-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3852","title":{"rendered":"Florida Leads Nation in Death Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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National Totals from the DPIC<\/p><\/div>\n

The non-profit group Death Penalty Information Center<\/a> published their 2012 report<\/a> on December 18.\u00a0 Florida had the most death sentences in the country for 2012 with 21 total.\u00a0 California (14), Texas (9), and Pennsylvania (7), and Florida combined to serve 65% of the nation’s death sentences.\u00a0 The projected nationwide total for 2012 will be 78, up from 76 in 2011.<\/p>\n

Florida executed three inmates in 2012:\u00a0 Robert Waterhouse, David Allen Gore, and Manuel Pardo.\u00a0 Florida currently houses 407 inmates on death row, second only to California with 724.\u00a0 In 2000, lethal injection replaced the electric chair for Florida’s executions.<\/p>\n

As the use of the death penalty is at all time low since 1976, FBI UCR reports also show the 2011 murder rate of 4.7 per 100,00 at its lowest point since 2000 where the murder rate was 5.5 per 100,000.\u00a0 The DPIC report cites a study by the National Research Council which indicates that 35 years of death penalty data show the deterrence factor to death sentencing as “fundamentally flawed.”<\/p>\n

I have never bought into the belief that the existence of the death penalty prevents people from murdering others.\u00a0 A death sentence and execution will, however, prevent that person from killing again.\u00a0 A PDF of the DPIC report is linked above.\u00a0 It contains some interesting facts.<\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The non-profit group Death Penalty Information Center published their 2012 report on December 18.\u00a0 Florida had the most death sentences in the country for 2012 with 21 total.\u00a0 California (14), Texas (9), and Pennsylvania (7), and Florida combined to serve 65% of the nation’s death sentences.\u00a0 The projected nationwide total for 2012 will be 78, up from 76 in 2011. Florida executed three inmates in 2012:\u00a0 Robert Waterhouse, David Allen Gore, and Manuel Pardo.\u00a0 Florida currently houses 407 inmates on death row, second only to California with 724.\u00a0 In 2000, lethal injection replaced the electric chair for Florida’s executions. As the use of the death penalty is at all time … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,349],"tags":[602],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-politics","tag-death-sentence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-108","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}