This review focuses on empirical research about contemporary challenges to the death
penalty in the United States. Challenges are factors that obstruct capital punishment …

Research exploring attitudes toward the death penalty is common in the field of criminal
justice. Additionally, a substantial body of literature has examined public perceptions of sex …

Research on public attitudes toward the death penalty has yet to systematically examine the
role of race in the context of offense‐related attributes. This study uses a conjoint experiment …

This chapter describes the level and trends in support for the death penalty in the United
States based on the traditional one-question opinion poll. It illustrates four important areas …

Singapore is well known internationally for its uncompromising stance towards law and
order and its use of the death penalty in particular for murder and drug trafficking. Until 2012 …

Peffley and Hurwitz's article “Persuasion and resistance: Race and the death penalty in
America” is an influential study demonstrating the effects of race on death penalty attitudes …

Currently, 24 states in the US still permit the death penalty, along with three states
temporarily suspending it. Nevertheless, there exists substantial variation in the extent to …

Empirical studies of Chinese public opinion on capital punishment are very rare. Almost all
past studies suffered from questionable survey designs and/or nonrepresentative …

Despite rich literature on public opinion on capital punishment, only a few studies examined
people's death penalty support within specific contexts. None have explored if correlates that …

This study investigates whether crime type and severity, as well as offender, observer, and
victim characteristics predict public attitudes towards capital punishment in Israel. We …