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Gallup Poll Shows Growing Opposition to Death Penalty
Loaded on June 1, 2020
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2020, page 62
Filed under:
Death Penalty.
Location:
United States of America.
by Douglas Ankney
A Gallup poll revealed that 60% of Americans believe that life in prison without parole is a better approach for a murder conviction than the death penalty. The poll was cited in the Death Penalty Information Center’s 2019 year-end report. “The death penalty has now disappeared from ...
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