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public opinion on the death penalty  

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  • The death penalty has long been an issue that divides Americans along racial lines. Since the American Institute of Public Opinion (the producer of the Gallup polls) first began systematically recording death penalty opinion in 1936, racial differences in opinion have been evident. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Public Opinion, Death Penalty]

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