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Conservative activists from a dozen states discussed the growing movement of conservatives and Republican state legislators who believe the death penalty violates the basic tenets of their beliefs. October 28, 2019, CCATDP released a Conservative Statement of Support to End the Death Penalty signed by more than 250 politically active ...
The media's ability to reframe capital punishment and, by extension, affect people's support of capital punishment, while still appealing to their pre-existing ideological beliefs that may traditionally contradict death penalty support is a testament to the complexities embedded in the media's shaping of people's beliefs about capital punishment.
The vast majority of Republicans support capital punishment. [84] Official party platforms have consistently argued that the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime and ensures safer neighborhoods, citing the rising crime rates in recent decades.
Thirty other inmates in the same state are awaiting capital punishment because of a now repealed law. Michelle Del Rey reports The controversial, outlawed policy that keeps inmates on Alabama’s ...
Excerpt from "Justice, Deterrence, and the Death Penalty," chapter 5 of America's Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction, edited by James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier (Carolina Academic Press, 1998, ISBN 0-89089-651-8; 2003, ISBN 0-89089-064-1). 3.
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On Death Row is a television mini-series written and directed by Werner Herzog about capital punishment in the United States. The series grew out of the same project which produced Herzog's documentary film Into the Abyss. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2012, on Channel 4. [2]
The contenders to succeed Boris Johnson have faced off in a second televised debate. Here are some of the key quotes from the five remaining rivals in the Tory leadership contest.