Unit.D.7.3. Capital Punishment

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"Amnesty International, the 52 member UN commission, the world's top human rights watchdog denounced capital punishment in the United States" (The Associated Press, Geneva, March, 1999).

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'American support for the death penalty has steadily increased since 1966, when opponents outnumbered supporters and by mid 1990's it was record high" (Ellsworth & Gross, 1994, p. 19). "Research over the last 20 years has tended to confirm that the hypothesis that people's death penalty attitude is based on emotion rather than information or rational argument" (Ellsworth & Gross, 1994, p. 19). "Support for the death penalty has risen for most major felonies, most people still oppose the death penalty for the retarded, but youth is less of a mitigating factor than it was 35 years ago" (Ellsworth & Gross, 1994, p. 19). "Three groups - women, young people and people suffering from mental retardation have been singled out by survey researchers as possible exceptions to statutes authorizing the death penalty" (Ellsworth & Gross, 1994, p. 38).

 

Focus Points Reference

The Associated Press (1999, March ). Amnesty

International's statement on capital punishment. Geneva.

Ellsworth, P. C. & Gross, S. R. (1994). Hardening of the

Attitudes: Americans' views on the death penalty. Journal of Social Issues, 50(2), 19-52.

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