StateMaster - Texan Crime statistics

Arson deaths	1.61	[21st of 49]
Capital Punishment > Electrocution	0	[20th of 32]
Capital Punishment > Lethal injection	336	[1st of 32]
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000	11	[26th of 51]
Homicide > Victims by Sex > Female	25.8 %	[24th of 49]
Homicide > Victims by Weapon > Other Weapons	23.4 %	[25th of 49]
Lynchings > Black	352	[3rd of 44]
Lynchings > Total	493	[3rd of 44]
Lynchings > White	141	[1st of 44]
Prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	168,105	[1st of 50]
Property crime total	959,460	[2nd of 51]
Robbery	37,254	[2nd of 51]
State and Federal prisoners held in local jails	13,228	[2nd of 44]
State and Federal prisoners held in private facilities	16,668	[1st of 50]
State Prisoners > Number of deaths	804	[1st of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Homicides	10	[2nd of 50]
State Prisons > Number of Suicides	49	[2nd of 50]
Terrorism > Victims of 9-11	6	[12th of 40]
Violent crime	121,378	[3rd of 51]
Women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal correctional authorities	13,958	[1st of 50]

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SOURCES: US Fire Administration, 2001; Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2005; statehealthfacts.org; Bureau of Justice Statistics ; UMKC School of Law; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Prisoner Suicides and Homicides, 2001.; September 11th, 2001 Victims, website memorial, last update - Sept. 21, 2002.

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