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Latest Harris Interactive Polling on Death Penalty

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Harris Interactive has released its latest polling on death penalty attitudes.  A news release, via Business Wire, is here; it includes several tables.Over the past few years there have been many high profile cases where those on death row have been found to be innocent and some states have halted executions. In the minds of Americans, this may have had an impact as the number of those who believe in the death penalty has declined since 2003. Currently, 63 percent of Americans believe in the death penalty while three in ten (30%) are opposed to it. Five years ago, almost seven in ten (69%) believed in it while 22 percent were opposed to it. In 1965, when The Harris Poll® first started asking this question, just under half of Americans (47%) were opposed to the death penalty while 38 percent believed in it...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).