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Majority of Americans Now Favor Life Imprisonment Over Death Penalty

Loaded on July 1, 2021 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News July, 2021, page 57
Filed under: U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Death Penalty. Location: United States of America.

by Matt Clarke

For the first time since Americans’ opinion about the death penalty versus life imprisonment was polled, a majority of Americans favor life imprisonment over the death penalty.

In 1985, Gallup began asking the question: “If you could choose between the following two approaches, which do you think ...

 

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