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Texas has a little over 3x the population of Virginia with 4.5 times the number of executions. Keeping in mind that crime isn't necessarily consistent from place to place I don't think that is a drastically larger number proportionally.

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That's assuming, of course, that Virginia is at all representative of the US as a whole. The median execution rate by state is about 1 per million residents since 1976. Texas's, while not the highest, is almost 1 per 50,000 residents. Its not the worst, but its still something of an outlier.

The worst, incidentally, is Oklahoma, at about 1 per 40,000 residents.

Restating your numbers in consistent units (number per million) for easier comparison:

Median 1

Texas 20

Ok 25

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