“Americans claim they don’t want those condemned to death to suffer needlessly, but recent news of painfully botched lethal injections has not shaken their support for the death penalty, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll shows.
Sixty-five percent of Americans — including 82 percent of Republicans, 66 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats — said they support the death penalty for people convicted of murder.”
Take the poll here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/death-penalty-poll_n_5269276.html
Read more about the poll results here: https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/05/05/poll-results-death/
Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore, Steve Oh and Dave Rubin of The Young Turks discuss the poll results. Do you support the death penalty? Tell us what you think of capital punishment in the comment section below.