+ Race and the Death Penalty
          + Innocence and the Death Penalty
          + Mental Health and the Death Penalty
          + Public Opinion and the Death Penalty
          + The Death Penalty for Juveniles
          + The Expansion of the Federal Death Penalty
Public Opinion and the Death Penalty
Public Opinion and the Death Penalty
   Public support for the death penalty has declined over the past decade,
   still support capital punishment for those convicted of murder. For
   those who have shifted away from the death penalty, one of the most
   effect of the death penalty - long the backbone of its support - has
   death penalty did not deter crime. This shift in public opinion has
   support the death penalty, many believe that it is a way to provide
   the emergence of new voices raising questions about the death penalty
   address problems with the death penalty. Letters in support of granting
       perception of the death penalty?
       play in the public’s ongoing debate about the death penalty? What
       movements and the nation’s capital punishment debate?
       capital punishment?