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...this point of view. But what about the rest of us? While the horrific scale of McVeigh's crime seems to demand the ultimate penalty, there's something unsettling about the way so much of America is gearing up for a good old-fashioned grudge killing. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 78% of respondents--82% of men and 75% of women--wanted McVeigh to receive the death penalty. (About the same percentage favored the death penalty generally.) Yet a closer inspection of their attitudes betrays America's conflicted thinking about capital punishment. A 52% majority don't think...
...legal-studies division of the Washington Legal Foundation, admits that "there are no convincing studies" tracking the relationship between the death penalty and the crime rate, because isolating one variable in a sea of factors (poverty, gun availability, alcohol use, policing techniques) is beyond our abilities. In a 1995 poll, 67% of police chiefs said they did not think the death penalty deters homicide...
From a telephone poll of 1,024 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on June 4-5 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error...
...This really is a Kabuki dance in so many ways; my lips are saying no, but my eyes are saying yes," sighs Bill Pitts, vice president of government affairs for abc. Though public dissatisfaction is cited as one of the reasons for the industry change of heart--a TIME/CNN poll shows that 80% of parents with children 12 and younger want S, L, V--the real reasons are that the networks want Congress to owe them something. All this could make for one big happy TV press conference, except that nbc, the No. 1 rated network, is concerned about...
...thing,? Clinton said Monday. ?That doesn't weaken us. Now, whether this legislation should pass, I just need some time to think about that." The President has said he would not support the next step, making monetary reparations to descendants of slaves, but a CBS News poll released Sunday indicated that a government apology may not be enough to make a sizable statement. Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe racial problems are beyond the President's control, up from 46 percent four years ago. But considering that President Bush supported paying reparations to the Japanese-Americans who were interned during...