Supreme Court Allows Use of Execution Drug "...In the process, two dissenting members of the court — Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — came very close to announcing that they were ready to rule the death penalty unconstitutional. This gave rise to slashing debate with Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas about the reliability and effectiveness of the punishment, a dispute that overshadowed the core issue in the case..." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/u...n-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
"...The decision not only dealt a huge blow to anti-death penalty activists, it completely ignored a wave currently cresting itself across the US: That capital punishment shouldn't have a place in our justice system at all. To start, support for the death penalty in general polls has been slipping for nearly the last two decades, according to the Pew Research Center. And currently, the number of Americans who favor it, only a small majority at 56%, has hit a 40-year low. Young people ages 18-29 support it by an even slimmer, 8-point margin..." http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/th...g-a-huge-wave-in-american-politics/ar-AAcwCLZ
Since when is 56-44 in a political poll a "small majority"? That's a pretty convincing margin...thankfully.