>Are you sure this is true? The latest Gallup poll on the death penalty isn't
>broken down by either occupation or income level but if you use race as a
>proxy for class the more affluent are more into capital punishment than poor
>folks.
I'll bet this is one case where you can't use race as a proxy for class, given the racial makeup of death row - 42% black <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t677.pdf>.