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Do you support the death penalty? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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Last time I looked a majority of Brits support the death penalty. Which personally I've always found quite disturbing considering all the problems with it.

But 5 mins on any subreddit and you have people frothing at the mouth to hang every criminal.

Which if even more disturbing.

So what do you think?

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[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Majority support death penalty:

It was dropping about 8 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/12/less-half-britons-support-reintroduction-death-penalty-survey

Discussion by Oxford Law about polls on death penalty in general: https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-research-unit-blog/blog-post/2023/08/crude-opinion-polls-death-penalty-distort-public