In a country topping 300 million in population and plagued annually by in excessof 13, 000 murders, 78 offenders were added to the nation's death rows last year, down 75% from the 326 sentenced to die in 1995.
We are far enough up the coast to be out of range of hurricanes, but close enough to the urban centers of the northeast, where 18% of the U.S. population lives, for there to be an efficient market for the excess energy we can produce.