Horrifying fact I learned today:
Only a single dissenting vote prevented the death penalty in Texas from being carried out by immersing the convicted person in a nest of fire ants.
I have very real fear of ants, a fear I think is completely logical given that I was swarmed by fire ants at the tender age of 3 and some days I can still feel them crawling on me.
I’m mostly horrified, but also slightly impressed, that the people who drafted the capital punishment code in Texas even considered fire ants as a potential execution method. Lord knows that would have deterred ME from committing a capital crime! (I mean, hopefully not the ONLY thing that would deter me, but still)
InnerTeub 
Oh! Liz, can that really be true? Do you have any way of confirming the story or should I look on Snopes.com instead?
Ian: Doh, now you’re going to make me hunt for a reputible source, vs just my “random facts about Texas” source. Well, Snopes didn’t anything one way or another; I’ll try to dredge up something concrete đ