About 52 people are murdered each day in the United States. In 1996, 19,224 people were whacked (compared with 21,600 in 1995). The U.S. homicide rate is 17 times greater than Japan's, and 10 times the rate in Germany, France and Greece. Louisiana has the highest homicide rate in the country, with 18.5 murders per every 100,000 people. Anywhere in the South is dangerous; the southern states possess the highest rates in the country. But the place where you're most likely to be snuffed is in the nation's capital; a whopping 66.5 people are murdered in Washington, D.C., for every 100,000 people. Males between the ages 15 and 24 are most likely to commit murder. Men commit 91 percent of the murders in the United States.
For those of you currently contemplating committing a murder (automatically pegging it as Murder One!), you might want to consider your venue. Texas leads the nation-big time-in the number of executions since 1976 at 119, followed by Virginia and Florida at 39 each. Of the death penalty states-present and past-Idaho has capped the fewest guys: only one. Fifty-six murderers were put to death in 1995 in the United States, nearly twice as many as the year before. It was the largest number in four decades.
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