With murders down dramatically, death penalty support has fallen far from its peak 20 years ago. Problems with executions, meanwhile, have made many Democrats, at least, skeptical about the practice.

By 2019, backing for the death penalty had fallen to some 6 in 10 Americans. That’s about where it has remained since. In the most recent Pew survey, 60% of American adults said they supported ...

My own research has revealed the electoral power of the death penalty issue whenever voters are asked to express their views on it directly. Since 1968, ...

The "real problem" with the death penalty in America today isn't a mystery. The real problem is that we all know what the problems are but cannot or will not muster the political will and moral ...

Read our last thematic issues for the World Day against the Death Penalty, October 10th. – 2024 : 2024 World day against the death penalty – 2023 : Death Penalty: An Irreversible Torture – 2022 : ...

The data in the most recent survey, collected from Pew Research Center’s online American Trends Panel (ATP), finds that 60% of Americans favor the death penalty for persons convicted of murder.Over ...

The Death Penalty Information Center, a rallying point for opponents of execution, reports... Stick to the Moral Issues of the Death Penalty SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

The Death Penalty Information Center points to a 35 percent figure for black death sentences, nearly three times the percentage of the population that is African American.

Maria DeLiberato is the executive director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Finally, in 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the issue.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — After hearing a historic challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty and the practice of death qualification, a Kansas trial court has issued a written order finding ...

A demonstration that the death penalty issue is far from academic came Wednesday when federal jurors in Pittsburgh voted to impose a death sentence for Robert Bowers for killing 11 people in a ...