“Across this country, proponents of capital punishment are playing defense. They are doing so because the death penalty has been tarnished by mounting concerns about executing the innocent, by pervasive racial bias throughout the system, and by the prevalence of botched executions.
The governing maxim for today’s death penalty is: familiarity breeds contempt. The more that people know about it, the less they support capital punishment.”
Austin Sarat
https://verdict.justia.com/2022/11/21/with-americas-death-penalty-new-evidence-shows-that-familiarity-breeds-contempt
