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TIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US state (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/til@lemmy.world
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There are just over 2,000 DRIs in the entire US, 46 of which are women. Alabama is leading the list with >300 inmates per 10M inhabitants.

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Alabama is still the home of a lot of US operations like NASA.

States like Ohio and West Virginia are worse

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I mean not as much anymore since the end of the shuttle program. Huntsville is where a lot of vehicle production but a lot of that is private companies like ULA, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc. with govt contracts and subsidies. There’s only about 7k direct nasa employees at Marshall.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Correct me if I'm wrong as I'm an Australian but isnt Alabama the only state that doesnt have a NHL, NFL, NBA or MLB franchise?

    (Contiguous states that is, Alaska and Hawaii dont count.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Hey, we have NASA in Cleveland too (GRC)! but, I agree, we also largely suck. There are also some very good people there too (Alabama). It’s all a bad system.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe it is isolated to a particular region but last time I checked there were a lit of smart people in Alabama. Everyone from farmers to aerospace engineers are really to innovate.

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