Americans Still Back Death Penalty

“A badly botched lethal injection in Oklahoma has not chipped away at the American public’s support of the death penalty, although two-thirds of voters would back alternatives to the needle,” according to a new NBC News poll.

“One in three people say that if lethal injections are no longer viable — because of drug shortages or other problems — executions should be stopped altogether… But many others are open to more primitive methods of putting prisoners to death: 20% for the gas chamber, 18% for the electric chair, 12% for firing squad and 8% for hanging.”