American support for the death penalty has fallen considerably since the mid-1990s, according to a survey released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
The partisan gap has widened as support has fallen more sharply among Democrats and independents than Republicans.
Overall, the poll found 56 percent of Americans now say they support the death penalty, down substantially from 78 percent in a 1996 survey.
(Chart credit: Pew Research Center)
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Yeah…but I’m feeling more benign about it than I might have, because this chart makes me happy. Declining even among Republicans, a little. No human endeavor is immune to human error; for me, that’s Q.E.D. May the trend continue.
Death to the death penalty.
Mistakes have been made in the past, and will be in the future.
Even if there was no chance of making a mistake and killing an innocent person, there is the issue that poor people and minorities are far more likely to be prosecuted and found guilty than the white and affluent.
Even if justice was just, we can easily afford to keep these offenders in jail for life with a tiny fraction of the money we’d save if we didn’t jail so many people for minor offenses.
Finally, there is the moral reason: we are one of the few developed countries where this barbaric form of justice is still used.
The only possible justification I could see for the Death Penalty is someone who is convicted of murder perpetrated while they’re already in Prison. A person who does that is still a grave danger to society. If they can kill in prison once they could do it again, and that would be unfair to other Prisoners.
Other than that I do not see any justification.
Bury the death penalty. It is a supreme contradiction.