"Alabama has the highest death sentencing rate in the country. In 2010, more people were sentenced to death in Alabama than in Georgia, Maryland, virginia, Arkansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and louisiana combined. • The death sentencing rate in Alabama is nearly six times greater than in Texas. Alabama – with a population of 4.7 million – sentenced more people to death last year than texas, with 24.8 million people. • Alabama executes more people per capita than any other state."