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News Coverage of DPIC Public Opinion Polling

By Steve Hall

"Death penalty for murder? Majority supports an alternative, poll says," is the title of the Christian Science Monitor report by Walter Richey. Sixty-one percent of registered voters said they would favor a punishment for murder other than the death penalty, according to a survey made public on Tuesday. The poll, conducted for the Death Penalty Information Center, an antideath-penalty organization, found that when offered nonlethal alternative forms of punishment, only 33 percent of respondents supported the death penalty for murder. The survey results challenge the findings of other polls that suggest Americans support the death penalty by a wide margin. Pollsters said the results can depend on how the question is asked. ?We find that when voters have a choice, the majority chooses some alternative to the death penalty,? said Celinda Lake of the polling firm Lake Research Partners...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 17, 2010 (boomark / email).