[nellybell]

Originally Posted by captainsatkins

I don't think it's 'more than likely' they'll kill her. Capital punishment is used very sparingly (that is, the actual execution is used very sparingly, thanks to multiple right to appeals and the work of both professionals and non-professionals alike).

Texas is the state that has carried out the most executions since the 70s, and I think they've only executed something like 40 or so people.

You might actually be surpirsed at how, not so sparingly, Texas uses the death penalty. They've probably had 40 executions since mid 2009 and 470 since 1976.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/numb...nd-region-1976

Its kind of an interesting site and there's more details on each state here: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state_by_state