Sentence examples for support for death from inspiring English sources

Neither history was false: the Marshall Plan did show that America could get something right, while the overthrow of President Allende in Chile and support for death squads in Latin America showed that America could do serious wrong.

"Polls have consistently shown broad and overwhelming support for death with dignity," Eggman said.

Support for Death With Dignity from across the ocean is encouraging.

But even with support for death penalties and executions waning, referenda in 2016 leaned in the opposite direction.

Yes, support for death penalties has been dropping in a Pew survey — from 78percentt in 1996 to 55percentt last year.

Rights groups allege that this involved support for death squads that killed around 1,400 people during his reign as mayor, including petty criminals and street children.   .

For example, a Gallup Poll last February showed that support for the death penalty had dropped to 66percentt from 80percentt in 1984.

While reaffirming his support for the death penalty, Mr. Clinton lamented the glaring inequities in the imposition of federal death sentences identified in a Justice Department study in September.

Opinion-poll support for the death penalty may be fairly uniform across America, and 38 states have the death penalty on their books.

"There is zero evidence that support for the death penalty has gone down," Dudley Sharp, a prominent victims'-rights advocate and death-penalty supporter in Houston, said.

And despite overwhelming popular support for the death penalty in Japan, most justice ministers in recent years have been reluctant to sign death warrants; they often delay.