Poll: National Support for Death Penalty Falls Below 50%
October 17, 2016
Support for the death penalty is the lowest it’s been in more than 40 years.
Support for the death penalty is the lowest it’s been in more than 40 years.
As the cost of executions rises, state officials are scrambling to find the money to pay for them.
Newspapers are unanimous in their endorsement of Prop 62 and the repeal of California’s death penalty.
“We actually thought at the time, naively, that a broader death penalty would deter criminals,” Briggs says. “We truly believed the bill would reduce crime in California.”
Five counties in southern California have been handing down so many death sentences one death penalty expert has dubbed them the “new Death Belt.”
A federal appeals court ruled last week that Missouri must disclose the identities of the suppliers who provide it with the drugs used in its
The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators passed a resolution last week calling for an end to the death penalty in the U.S. The 320-member
“In California, the death penalty system stopped working many years ago, but taxpayers continue to pay for it,” says Our Revolution, the recently formed political
Fourteen years ago, the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment issued a report recommending 85 reforms designed to minimize the possibility that an innocent person would