Death's dwindling dominion: public opinion is shifting against the death penalty. What will it take to abolish it?(Execution)
American Prospect, The, July, 2004 by Bedau, Hugo Adam
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AS WE ENTER THE 21ST CENTURY, AMERICANS have never been more divided over the proper role of the death penalty. Some of us (still a minority) would like to see it entirely abolished--and we have achieved this goal in a dozen states, beginning with Michigan in 1847 and most recently in Vermont in 1987.
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At the other extreme, a smaller minority wants an expanded death penalty--a goal unlikely to be achieved given recent DNA findings, court rulings, and shifts in public opinion. A plurality of the public at present believes there is a proper, albeit rather narrow, role for capital ...
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