Tar-heel tolerance.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
American Prospect, The, August, 2004 by Doble, John
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR Hugo Adam Bedau's argument that public support for capital punishment is dwindling ["Death's Dwindling Dominion," July 2004] comes from a new poll in North Carolina that Doble Research Associates has recently published. When given a choice between sentencing murderers to death or to life in prison without parole, plus a requirement that they work and make restitution to a fund for victims' families, support for capital punishment drops dramatically.
When people have this option, only 26 percent support the death penalty; 64 percent favor ...
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