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Study suggests support for death penalty still strong despite innocence concerns

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is meant to be quite different from the headline of this new Los Angeles Times article, which is headlined "Californians' support for death penalty waning: A survey shows public support has dropped from 79% to 66%, as fears of executing the wrongly convicted escalate."  Here is more from the article: A majority of Californians still favor the death penalty, but their support has waned from 79% to 66% over the last two decades as fears of executing the wrongly convicted escalate, a researcher reported Tuesday. The survey conducted by Craig Haney, a UC Santa Cruz psychology professor and lawyer, also showed that most Californians erroneously believe that it costs taxpayers less to execute condemned prisoners than to keep them locked up for life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 02, 2009 (boomark / email).