Today I Learned @lemmy.world HylicManoeuvre @mander.xyz 7d ago

TIL that Alabama has by far the highest amount of death row inmates by capita of any US state

en.wikipedia.org List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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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Not surprising that they are also some of the most uneducated, the populations our prison industrial complex preys on the most.
- Alabama is still the home of a lot of US operations like NASA.
  
  States like Ohio and West Virginia are worse
  
  A significant part of NASA may be in Alabama, but If bet that's not where most of those educated engineers are coming from.
  
  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.
  
  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.)
  
  There are 24 (out of 50 total) us states with no big four teams.
  
  https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/states-without-professional-sports-teams.html
  
  So I was REALLY wrong. Lol
  
  Because that makes members of Congress more likely to sign off on spending bills, not because Alabama is a great place for it.
  
  Worse.....for having NASA? I'm quite confused.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Oh, of course we have a lot of smart people in all of our states. But, unfortunately, Alabama has been consistently at the bottom overall in education.
  
  Alabama is the 49th dumbest state in the country.
  
  If it weren't for Huntsville, Alabama would be a land of wild ape men

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