Support For Death Penalty Falls To 40-Year Low: Poll

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Source: Huffington Post

Support for the death penalty is the lowest it's been since 1972, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday afternoon.

A majority of Americans -- 60 percent -- still favor putting convicted murderers to death. In the past 20 years, the level of support has dropped gradually, from a high of 80 percent in 1994, and 69 percent as recently as 2007.



Along party lines, 81 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents, and 47 percent of Democrats favor the death penalty.

"The current era of lower support may be tied to death penalty moratoriums in several states beginning around 2000 after several death-row inmates were later proven innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted," Gallup managing editor Jeffrey M. Jones wrote. "More recently, since 2006, six states have repealed death penalty laws outright, including Maryland this year."



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/death-penalty-poll_n_4175297.html

[BlueJazz]

1. Death penalty for convicted murderers. No death penalty for murderers.

No death penalty for slow murderers.
No death penalty for people/corporations that shorten the lives of millions of people.

[nikto]

2. The only people...

...to suffer the Death penalty should be Corporations.

[davidpdx]

3. Well several states have put moratoriums on the death penalty

put haven't actually overturned the law. Oregon's governor stopped them for now, but who knows what will happen when he leaves office.

[scottx2]

4. Because the U.S. Justice System in flawed

and innocent persons get murdered by the government.

[gopiscrap]

5. Good it needs to be abolished

[Ash_F]

6. I wonder what sparked that huge decline in the 50's /nt