And yet, perhaps we are wising up? Even just a little?
by digby
We are a barbaric, backwards people in so many ways. But maybe we’re starting to evolve:
American support for the death penalty is at the lowest level recorded in more than 40 years, according to a new Gallup poll released Tuesday.
Sixty percent of Americans support the death penalty for convicted murderers, compared to 57 percent who supported it in 1972. Support in the survey peaked in 1994, when 80 percent of Americans supported the death penalty.
Eighty-one percent of Republicans and 47 percent of Democrats currently favor the death penalty. Support for the death penalty has declined among Democrats the most in the last 25 years, according to Gallup.
One of the more macabre stories I’ve read this Halloween week was about the fact that the states are running out of the lethal injection drugs used to execute people and can’t get any more.
I’d say that’s a sign that maybe we should just stop executing people.
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