Pros And Cons Of Capitol Punishment

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rence. To the extent the death penalty doesn’t deter, it is due to the

needless and lengthy appeals process in capital cases, which, in effectively

prolonging death, lessen the cost of a capital crime. Do away with that process,

they say, and the deterrent effect of the death penalty would be even more

evident.


Support varies with race and faith group:


Faith Group White Afro-American
Fundamentalists high level of support for death penalty oppose
Evangelicals various positions oppose


A serious deficiency of almost all public opinion polls is that they

generally ask too simple a question: whether the subject is in favor of the death

penalty or not. They rarely offer alternatives to execution in their polling

questionnaires. One exception was an ABC News/Washington Poll released on

2001-MAY-2. It shows a public ambivalence towards the continuation of the

death penalty. When asked whether or not they supported...