{"id":3389,"date":"2015-05-28T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2015-05-28T22:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T03:48:23","slug":"map-of-the-week-execution-by-method-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/05\/28\/map-of-the-week-execution-by-method-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the Week &#8211; Execution by Method by State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never in my life has a conservative state banned the death penalty, that is, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/05\/27\/nebraska-just-repealed-the-death-penalty-thanks-to-its-atheist-state-senator\/\" target=\"_blank\">this week<\/a>. Many congratulations to Ernie Chambers, who will stand as a symbol for rationalist perseverance in the face of faith-based nonsense for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/05\/firing-squad.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3390\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/05\/firing-squad.png\" alt=\"firing squad\" width=\"643\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/05\/firing-squad.png 643w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/05\/firing-squad-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The maps of the week are\u00a0courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.npr.org\/dailygraphics\/graphics\/death-penalty-map-20150527\/child.html\" target=\"_blank\">NPR<\/a>. They mapped out all the various death penalties by state, using a weird hexagonal format which\u00a0is generated by JavaScript. It is a little odd, and surely disproportionate to anything significant (other than number of Senators) but it does get the message across in a quick and easily comprehensible way. Unsurprisingly, Oklahoma is unsurpassed in terms of\u00a0how many different ways we can\u00a0kill convicts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Oklahoma electrocution may be used if both lethal injection and nitrogen gas are found unconstitutional. The firing squad may be used if electrocution is also found unconstitutional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When it comes to killing people who are already thoroughly neutralized, my home state is truly\u00a0open-minded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never in my life has a conservative state banned the death penalty, that is, until this week. Many congratulations to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events","category-damned-lies-and-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}