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So we have this paradox, which is that the number of annual executions has remained high but the number of new death sentences has gone down.

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These are personal effects dug up from a mass grave that are awaiting identification from family members and graffiti at the Potochari battery factory, which was where the Dutch U.N. soldiers were staying, and also the Serbian soldiers later during the times of the executions.

But the one thing that didn't happen was that there was never a serious and sustained decline in the number of annual executions in Texas.

In fact, as you can see from this graph, from the time that the Texas execution apparatus got efficient in the mid- to late 1990s, there have only been a couple of years where the number of annual executions dipped below 20.

The executions were designed to be as prolonged and as painful as possible, like crucifixion, disembowelment, breaking on the wheel.

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