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    Continued Majority Support for Death Penalty

    Overview Public opinion about the death penalty has changed only modestly in recent years, but there continues to be far less support for the death penalty than there was in the mid-1990s. A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted […]

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    Majority Continues to Support Death Penalty

    A November 2011 survey finds continued majority support for the death penalty in the U.S. Compared with 20 years ago, however, there is more concern today among death penalty opponents about flaws in the justice system and the possibility that innocent people could be put to death.

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    New Pew Forum Survey of Mormons in America

    Washington, D.C. —In a 10 a.m. EST conference call for journalists on Thursday, Jan. 12,2012, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life willdiscuss the findings from a major new comprehensive survey, Mormons in America: Certain in Their Beliefs but Uncertain of TheirPlace in Society. Conducted between Oct. 25 and Nov. 16, 2011, among […]

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    Race and Ethnicity of Military Women

    More than three-in-ten (31%) military women are black. This is almost twice the share of active-duty men who are black.