The Slow Death of the Death Penalty Olav Bjerkholt Teri Finneman

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The Slow Death of the Death Penalty Olav Bjerkholt Teri FinnemanWhy the death penalty is in decline across the United States Across the country, the death penalty is dying. Twenty two states have abandoned state sanctioned executions, including nine in the last fifteen years. Of the twenty eight states that still have the death penalty, eight have not had an execution in over a decade. And public support for the death penalty has declined from 80% of the surveyed population in the early 1990s to approximately 50%