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| NH Death Penalty Debate Heating Up |
| By concordmonitor.com |
| Published: 01/06/2011 |
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As a member of the majority of the Commission to Study the Death Penalty in New Hampshire, I would like to rebut the information provided by Barbara Keshen in her Dec. 31 Monitor column, "On death penalty, state bucks the trend." The anti-death penalty coalition asserts time and time again that public support for the death penalty in America and the world is declining. In fact, there is no indication that public support is waning. When faced with an actual execution, the public has overwhelmingly supported the application of the death penalty. The proof? Public opinion polls following the execution of Timothy McVeigh for blowing up more than 160 men, women and children in a terrorist act in Oklahoma showed an over 80 percent approval rating for the execution. Further proof? If Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 was to be executed, the approval ratings for that execution would be at least as high as the McVeigh figures. As noted in the American Law Institute's "Report of the Council to the Membership of the American Law Institute on the Matter of the Death Penalty," dated April 15, 2009, "Popular political support for the death penalty appears to remain relatively high, with opinion polls reporting stable majorities (about 70 percent)." Read More. |
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