A June 2006 TNS Poll (released by the Washington Post and ABC News) found lit­tle change in American opin­ion on the death penal­ty over the past three years. Sixty-five per­cent of American adults still favor the death penal­ty for per­sons con­vict­ed of mur­der. Despite this, when respon­dents were giv­en a choice between the sen­tenc­ing options of life with­out parole and the death penal­ty, 46% favored life with­out parole. Fifty per­cent of respon­dents, how­ev­er, select­ed the death penal­ty as their pref­er­ence for the pun­ish­ment of those con­vict­ed of mur­der.

(Angus Reid Global Scan, July 1, 2006). See Public Opinion and Life Without Parole.

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