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A Crisis of Confidence: Americans' Doubts About the Death Penalty
Publication year:
2007
| Cataloged on:
Jul. 04, 2007
ANNOTATION: The growing lack of support for the death penalty is explained. Sections of this report are: introduction; poll results for erosion of confidence, the ultimate error of executing the innocent, declining use of the death penalty, life without parole, pragmatic problems cited by those who support the death penalty, and the costs of innocence; prospects for the future; an emerging trend -- mistake-proof death penalty or none; and poll specifications. A sample of the National Omnibus Death Penalty Poll is also included.