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If that connection proves faulty, it will not work, and Mexicans may question the point of a “war” that has more than doubled the number of gangland executions, from 2,000 in 2006 to 5,000 in 2008, when their children, statistically at least, are not in harm’s way.

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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.

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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