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Death Penalty Politics

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That's the title of a report for the latest Oxford Analytica.  LINKCapital punishment is legal in some form in 37 states, but it is embraced nowhere as enthusiastically as in Texas. Despite making up around 8% of the population, Texas has been the home of a third of all executions in the US since 1976. In 2007, 26 of the 42 people put to death in America were in Texas. Explanations for this variance are not clear. Public opinion polls on capital punishment are difficult to judge and usually depend on the way the question is framed, but a reasonable assessment is that around 60% of Americans support capital punishment. In Texas, support is usually around 70%. The state?s frontier past and confederate roots are often cited as reasons, but other states with a similar background do not execute at the same rate...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).