When President Donald Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, announced an end to the Obama-era moratorium on the federal death penalty, pundits and the press were shocked.
Maybe they should have talked to a pollster.
Just days earlier, the new NPR/Marist poll found that only 36% of Americans support abolishing the death penalty, while 58 percent oppose a ban. This is hardly a surprise. Support for executing murderers has averaged 60% over the past decade in Gallup polling, and it has never found majority support for a death penalty ban going back to 1937.“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation […]
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