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Title	A crisis of confidence American's doubts about the death penalty : a Death Penalty Information Center report... based on a national opinion survey
Subject	Capital punishment--United States. Capital punishment--Public opinion. Sentences (Criminal procedure)--United States. Correctional law--United States.
Creator	Dieter, Richard C.
Rights	This work may be protected by copyright. It was originally published on the free Web and has been harvested for preservation purposes under a claim of fair use. Please consult the work itself for additional statements regarding copyright ownership and permissions.
Description	"June 2007."; "Embargoed until June 9, 2007 at 12:00 noon EDT."; Title taken from title screen (viewed June 14, 2007).; Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19) and appendix.; Harvested from the web on 9/11/07
Publisher	The Center
Contributors	Death Penalty Information Center (U.S.).
Format	application/pdf
URL-Identifier	http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/CoC.pdf; http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/request?id%3Doclcnum%3A144530561
Language	eng
Relation	Also available in the OCLC Digital Archive. Harvested from http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/CoC.pdf on Sept. 11, 2007.
Description-Abstract	According to a national public opinion poll conducted in 2007, the public is losing confidence in the death penalty. People are deeply concerned about the risk of executing the innocent, about the fairness of the process, and about the inability of capital punishment to accomplish its basic purposes. Most Americans believe that innocent people have already been executed, that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, and that a moratorium should be placed on all executions. Many in America also believe they would be disqualified from serving on a jury in a capital case because of their moral objections. Among women and Catholics, nearly half believe they would be excluded. Two-thirds of blacks believe they would be disqualified. Even among those who support the death penalty and believe they would be qualified to serve on a capital jury, the risk of convicting or executing the innocent would make them less likely to vote for a death sentence. While a majority still support the death penalty in theory, it is becoming irrelevant to many Americans because it is rarely applied, and not always to the worst offenders. Life without parole sentences are becoming more attractive to many Americans, and it is the preferable choice over the death penalty for major subgroups of the population. Two-thirds of Americans do not believe that reforms of the death penalty system will eliminate its problems. The public's lack of confidence in the death penalty is being echoed by representatives of victims' groups, by former supporters of the death penalty, and in the editorial pages of the nation's newspapers. Although the dissatisfaction with capital punishment has many roots, the common and principal concern heard throughout the country is the risk that innocent people may be caught up with the guilty.
Format-Extent	28 p. : digital, PDF file.
Format-Version	PDF-1.3
PDI.ObjectLocator.Original	http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/CoC.pdf
Copyright-Statement	This work may be copyrighted or have other restrictions on use. Please contact your librarian if you have questions on the uses of this material.
OCLC number	144530561

A crisis of confidence American's doubts about the death penalty : a Death Penalty Information Center report ... based on a national opinion survey

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