Cenk Uygur
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Why Do Americans Support The Death Penalty?
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November 29, 2014
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3:51Now Playing"The most popular reason for supporting the death penalty is still "eye for an eye" retribution, but an increasing number of Americans over the past couple decades have cited taxpayer savings as their reason for backing capital punishment.
Jishai Evers at Dadaviz charted the trends, based on survey data from Gallup of reasons cited by US death penalty supporters:
While basically no capital punishment supporters cited financial concerns in 1991, by this year 14 percent of supporters said they backed the death penalty to "save taxpayers money."
It actually costs more money to send convicts to death row than it does to imprison them for life, according to an investigation by the Associated Press."* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (TYT University) break it down.
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