Over at his place Sullivan has a post up about The Demographics of Death Penalty support, as broken down by race and gender.
The thing that interests me is that black American's support for the death penalty hits a low point in the 60s-70s and then increases through the later 70's and 80's, and starts to come down again in the mid-90's. Just looking at that, I suspect that the pattern roughly follows crime rates. White support for the death penalty, on the other hand, hasn't decreased commensurate with the falling crime rates of the past decade and a half.
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