Last time I looked a majority of Brits support the death penalty. Which personally I’ve always found quite disturbing considering all the problems with it.
But 5 mins on any subreddit and you have people frothing at the mouth to hang every criminal.
Which if even more disturbing.
So what do you think?
Majority support death penalty:
It was dropping about 8 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/12/less-half-britons-support-reintroduction-death-penalty-survey
Discussion by Oxford Law about polls on death penalty in general: https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalty-research-unit-blog/blog-post/2023/08/crude-opinion-polls-death-penalty-distort-public