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Judge White had a strong record of supporting capital punishment and often voted with Mr. Ashcroft's appointees on the Missouri Supreme Court.

With a majority of Americans supporting capital punishment, the governor's supporters predicted negligible political fallout.

The 1850s and 1860s saw the strange phenomenon of those supporting capital punishment arguing for the abolition of the public spectacle, and those against capital punishment arguing for its retention.

Sixty-three percent of Americans continue to support capital punishment, down just one percentage point from six years ago.

According to one opinion poll, although 81% of Texans support capital punishment, 73% oppose the execution of the mentally retarded.

In 1965, before the great crime wave of the 1970's, a Harris poll reported that only 38percentt of Americans supported capital punishment; 47 percent opposed it.

A Gallup poll in October found that 64percentt of Americans support capital punishment in murder cases.

Overall, while 54percentt of Americans support capital punishment, 39percentt oppose it, the Pew poll found.

A Gallup poll this spring showed that 65percentt of Americans supported capital punishment, down from about 80percentt in 1994.

A recent Gallup poll, the cardinal noted, had found that nearly three-quarters of Americans supported capital punishment.

According to a Gallup Poll published in Time magazine, 63percentt of Americans support capital punishment, down from 80percentt in 1994, when 16 percent opposed it; today opposition to the death sentence has doubled to 33percentt.