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California Public Opinion Polling

By Steve Hall

"Poll finds strong California support for death penalty," is the AP brief via the Silicon Valley Mercury News.A new poll finds that 70 percent of Californians favor the death penalty. The Field Poll released today shows support for executions has increased after a slight dip over the last decade. Support is still lower than in the mid-1980s, when the death penalty was favored by as much as 83 percent of voters. Executions resumed in California in 1977 after they were halted by the U.S. Supreme Court. There have been no executions in California since 2006 because of legal challenges to the lethal-injection procedures. More than 700 inmates remain on death row. Bob Egelko writes, "Field Poll finds 70% support death penalty," for the San Francisco Chronicle...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).