Americans support the death penalty nearly two to one, and although support has been ebbing away since reaching a peak in the early 1990s, at time of writing Pew finds that 62% of respondents support the death penalty. If present trends continue, support will fall below opposition in 2019, by my projection - but abolitionists are impatient, and the future is an undiscovered country of uncertain terrain.
April 25, 2008
State execution
Stubborn Facts on the death penalty:-
