Huntsville by CliffClaven
Drive about 160 miles south towards Houston and you'll come to Huntsville. If you have an hour or so free, you can visit the Texas Prison Museum and have a look at Old Sparky. Of course, they do things more humanely down in Texas nowadays. They should do - they get a lot of practice. Indeed, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice judicially kills more people than any other state in the US or than any other country in the civilised world. When it comes to the number of executions, only places like China and Iran rank ahead of Texas: not exactly the kind of places that redneck America would normally want to be associated with. There is no denying that many of those executed are guilty of particularly heinous crimes, but there is no denying also that Texas has executed those who were minors at the time of the crime, the mentally retarded and those who had been denied their full rights under international agreements. If you live in Texas, you are more likely to be executed than to die in a plane crash.
