Word: supportive
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This sense of unease about a mistake-prone system is also beginning to surface among voters. Although a majority still support capital punishment, the number is down to 66%, from a high of 80% in 1994. But fully 92% support making DNA testing available to those convicted before its widespread use. At the moment, only two states, New York and Illinois, insist on giving inmates on death row access to the new technology. Why the shift? Part of it may be the legacy of the country's lower crime rate--even though murder stats have registered a slight uptick...
...American support for the death penalty has varied. There were 1,289 executions in the 1940s and 715 in the 1950s, and the number fell to 191 by 1976. In 1966 support for capital punishment reached an all-time low, 42%. And the Supreme Court began a series of decisions limiting the scope of the death penalty, effectively outlawing it in 1972. When the court reinstated the penalty in 1976, it mandated that certain procedures, such as separate deliberations for determining guilt and sentencing, were to be followed...
...alliance against Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Rather than engage his enemies directly, Assad preferred to operate more subtly by giving space and succor to their enemies: For decades the principal expression of his conflict with Israel over the Golan Heights was the space and support he gave to Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon; while Syria's conflict with Turkey over water resources led him to allow the Kurdish guerrillas of Abdullah Ocalan's PKK to make their rear base in Syrian-controlled Lebanon...
Thanks to the energetic support of House Majority Leader Dick Armey, the rich may be poised to get a whole lot richer - and congressional Democrats could be staring at an election year gold mine. Friday, the GOP-controlled House, with the help of 65 rogue Democrats, passed a bill that would repeal estate taxes by the year 2010 - a far more sweeping (and expensive) tax break than the version favored by most Democrats, including President Clinton. And while Clinton has vowed to stand in the way of the bill, the Republicans are only 11 votes short of those needed...
...November 1998 The Undergraduate Council announces the "discovery" of $40,000 in a forgotten bank account. The oversight is blamed on poor account procedures in past. The council pledges to use $25,000 of the funds to construct a new student center, but the initiative lacks support among University Hall administrators...