Stig Östlund

torsdag, oktober 13, 2011

In U.S., Support for Death Penalty Falls to 39-Year Low

PRINCETON, NJ -- Sixty-one percent of Americans approve of using the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, down from 64% last year. This is the lowest level of support since 1972, the year the Supreme Court voided all existing state death penalty laws in Furman v. Georgia.



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