51.   Texas has easily outnumbered other states in executions of convicted murderers, yet that state has also the highest murder rate.

52.   The American murder rate, for example, is the highest in the world.

53.   The city, also noted for its old-fashioned brand of brawling politics, has long suffered from the worst murder rate in the state.

54.   The city may relinquish its status as the murder capital, but the murder rate here remains among the worst in the country.

55.   The idea that the murder rate now would be the same as it was then is astonishing.

56.   The highest murder rates were recorded, in order, in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and California.

57.   The murder rate among adults has also declined significantly, as has the number of assaults involving firearms.

58.   The murder rate in death penalty Missouri is five times that of non-death penalty Iowa.

59.   The murder rate of Illinois, a death penalty state, is nearly triple that of Wisconsin, which does not have capital punishment.

60.   The murder rate is at a record level.