Texas to defend law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms

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32. "Confronted with the sixth-highest murder rate in the country...."

... Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, installed a two-and-a half-ton monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the state courthouse in Montgomery. When a federal court ordered Justice Moore to remove the monument, he refused. Not wanting to have an obvious hand in actually separating church and state, the U. S. Congress amended an appropriations bill to ensure funds could not be used for the monument's removal.

Quoted from Sam Harris "The End of Faith".

I am not sure of the date of this or if it helped to reduce Alabama's murder rate.