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Researcher's survey shows death penalty issue 'much more unsettled'

By Richard Binder

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Support for the death penalty has dropped from 79 percent to 66 percent in California, according to a survey conducted by Craig Haney, a UC Santa Cruz psychology professor and lawyer.

Haney says the survey also shows that most Californians erroneously believe it costs taxpayers less to execute condemned prisoners than to keep them locked up for life. In California, it costs $138,000 a year to incarcerate each of San Quentin State Prison's 685 death row inmates, nearly three times the noncapital inmate cost, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The professor queried 800 jury-eligible Californians in February and March for his survey. The survey had a 3.5 percentage-point margin of error.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).

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