Les in Chorlton,

You are welcome.

California has about 36,000,000 inhabitants. Capital punishment was re-legalized in the U.S. 32 years ago. Since then, California has executed 13 people.

With 667 on death row in California, and with 13 executions in 32 years, you might say they are not exactly rushing to judgment.

Capital punishment is legal in 35 states. The federal government also uses capital punishment (3 executions in 32 years, most famously Timothy McVeigh, who, on this date in 1995, killed 168 people with a fertilizer & diesel fuel bomb.)

Kent