From the Death Penalty Information Center:
According to a national public opinion poll conducted in 2007,the public is losing confidence in the death penalty. People are deeply concerned about the risk of
executing the innocent, about the fairness of the process, and about
the inability of capital punishment to accomplish its basic purposes.
Most Americans believe that innocent people have already been executed, that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime, and that a moratorium should be
placed on all executions.
The public's lack of confidence in the death penalty is being echoed by representatives of victims' groups, by former supporters of the death penalty,
and in the editorial pages of the nation's newspapers. Although the dissatisfaction with capital punishment has many roots, the common and principal concern
heard throughout the country is the risk that innocent people may be caught up with the guilty.
It is time that our elected representatives instituted our collective will--abolition now!
