Capital Punishment: Just and Fair? Public support for capital punishment has eroded across the nation, for the most part because Americans are ambivalent. Many think that capital punishment is acceptable, but they are concerned about innocent people be

Public support for capital punishment has eroded across the nation, for the most part because Americans are ambivalent.   Many think that capital punishment is acceptable, but they are concerned about innocent people being executed.   As the political debate of the past two decades centered on wrongful convictions and death row exonerations, to a greater extent more Americans evaluated the death penalty in terms of being potentially unfair.   Nevertheless, consider arguments about cruel and unusual punishment to heart.