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Supreme Court plans to "review Florida's use of the electric chair" because the state has botched a number of executions.
Increase the number of executions by 1 percent (which amounts to increasing the severity of the average punishment) and (again to a very rough approximation) the murder rate falls by about half a percent.
In feudal Japanese society, the person who would order suicides in place of executions was the shogun, or military leader of Japan.
This was, presumably, before young Bush concocted that whole "compassionate conservative" thing and Texas foreswore executions.
(By the way, the ACLU claims that there have been 581 U.S. executions since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.