Texas death row stats for 2022

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "The individuals set for execution likely would meet a different fate if they were charged and tried today," Cuellar explains.
42% : New death sentences in Texas have dropped 96% since the high peak of 1999, according to the report, adding that "prosecutors throughout the state have dropped the death penalty as a sentencing option in dozens of capital cases in recent years.
40% : "Yet because of the high hurdles that state and federal courts have erected for review and relief, these older cases from a bygone era of zealous use of the death penalty in Texas remain frozen in time, allowing their executions to proceed despite egregious constitutional violations."
39% : Despite low numbers, the report said, executions set and carried out in 2022 raise concerns about the "fairness and utility of the death penalty."
39% : Inmates now on death row that were convicted during the era of prosecutorial excess showcase the failures in their cases and the death penalty, according to Cuellar.
39% : "As people who were sentenced to death fifteen, twenty, or even thirty years ago now face execution, the rampant flaws and failures exemplifying an era of prosecutorial excess have been on stark display."
19% : "The randomness of capital punishment coupled with the egregiously flawed cases of those who remain on death row should compel Texans to abandon the death penalty altogether."Since 1982, Texas has executed 578 inmates, 279 were during the years of 2001-2014 when Rick Perry was Governor.

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