Extract from a survey in late 2021
Fifty-four percent of respondents to annual crime survey conducted between October 1 and October 19, 2021 told the polling organization that they were “in favor of the death penalty for a person convicted of murder.” The figure was the lowest since 50% of respondents in March 1972 when they favored the death penalty. XXX said the results are “essentially unchanged from readings over the past four years.” Support was marginally lower than the 55% reported in October 2017 and 2020, and two percentage points lower than in October 2018 and 2019.
Forty-three percent of respondents told XXX that they were opposed to the death penalty as a punishment for murder, matching the responses reported in the 2020 death penalty poll. Opposition to capital punishment was the highest in 55 years, since 47% of Americans expressed opposition to capital punishment in the May 1966 Gallup survey. The number was marginally higher than the 42% level of opposition reported in 2019 and two percentage points higher than in 2017 and 2018.
"Just over half the people who were surveyed in the USA support "Capital Punishment" and just under half the people oppose it.
Needless to say that people have always been divided on their respective views, for 1000's of years. That's what makes people different from sheep or goats, if you prefer the later.
It is the prerogative of both sides to espouse their respective views, presumably views based on ones personal feelings.
It does not mean that 54% of the people are uncivilized, just that they differ from the other 43%. Hmm 3% must sit on the fence
"Or is it that, we all have to think like
,because
views are the only views that matter.
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/2021- ... entury-low
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