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Capital punishment debate in the United States
Capital punishment debate in the United States existed as early as the colonial period. Opposition to the death penalty peaked in 1966,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Death Penalty )〕 rising to 47% opposition, higher than those who supported it (42%), the rest (11%) had 'no opinion'. The death penalty increased in popularity throughout the 1970s and 1980s, peaking in 1994 at 80%; since then, the anti-death penalty movement has strengthened again and the most recent Gallup poll in 2011 shows that 35% of Americans oppose the death penalty, an increase of over 80% over the last 17 years.
Arguments in opposition to the death penalty in US include: the fact that a significant number of death row inmates are found to be innocent before execution, and that some executed criminals' convictions have been subsequently shown to be unsafe; the disproportionately high chance of poor and ethnic minority individuals to be sentenced to death compared with affluent whites committing similar crimes; lack of solid evidence for its deterrent effect; the "cruel and unusual punishment" clause introduced to the US constitution with the Eighth Amendment; and moral relativism, the idea that if it is wrong to kill then it is absolutely not relatively wrong—most religious bodies in the USA oppose the death penalty.
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