A majority of Americans favor life imprisonment without parole over the death penalty for convicted murderers, a first in ABC News/Washington Post polls. Given a choice between the two options, 52 percent pick life in prison as the preferred punishment, while 42 percent favor the death penalty – the fewest […] Read more »
Heartbleed Bug Prompts Concern but Little Action in U.S.
One of the most recent examples of a data security breach receiving widespread visibility in the U.S. is the Heartbleed bug that affected the credit and debit cards of millions of American shoppers earlier this year. A little less than half of Americans (45%) say they are aware of the […] Read more »
An Anti-Death-Penalty Majority Might Be on Its Way … in 2044
Last month’s botched execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma brought the death penalty back into a prominent position in the national debate. Although it’s been noted that the percentage of Americans who favor executing people convicted of murder has fallen over the past decade, the vast majority of them still […] Read more »
Americans Back Death Penalty by Gas or Electrocution If No Needle
A badly botched lethal injection in Oklahoma has not chipped away at the American public’s support of the death penalty, although two-thirds of voters would back alternatives to the needle, an exclusive NBC News poll shows. One in three people say that if lethal injections are no longer viable — […] Read more »
View of Death Penalty as Morally OK Unchanged in U.S.
The recent news about the botched execution of an Oklahoma death row inmate has not affected the way Americans view the death penalty. Sixty-one percent say the death penalty is morally acceptable, similar to the 62% who said so in 2013, although both figures are down from a high of […] Read more »
Not Clear That Oklahoma Execution Will Affect Death Penalty Attitudes
The botched execution of a convicted killer in Oklahoma in late April — in which the individual was reported to have writhed in pain and convulsed for nearly 45 minutes before dying — has again raised the issue of Americans’ attitudes toward the death penalty. … Sixty percent of Americans […] Read more »