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NEW Economist/YouGov Oct 10-12: The death penalty % [in favor of | opposed to] the death penalty for people convicted of murder U.S. adult citizens 51% | 30% Democrats 29% | 52% Independents 48% | 27% Republicans 75% | 12% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

NEW Economist/YouGov Oct 10-12 % who think the death penalty should be imposed [more often | no change | less often | never] U.S. adult citizens 34% | 28% | 20% | 19% Democrats 15% | 24% | 28% | 32% Independents 32% | 31% | 20% | 17% Republicans 55% | 27% | 11% | 7% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Interested to hear from the geniuses who make up the 6% of respondents who say they are opposed to the death penalty but are also strongly or somewhat in favor of televised executions.

im surprised its that low - the argument for it is that executions being public forces the public to confront what they're supporting anti death penalty groups have long been trying to use FOIA to force states to make execution footage publicly available while death penalty states have argued...