1. Colorado College Tutt Library Capital Punishment General Sources. Punishment and the Death Penalty from a page Capital Punishment The Death Penalty from the Ontario Centre for Religious Tolerance; http://www.cc.colorado.edu/Library/Course/General/Capital.html

General Sources Punishment and the Death Penalty from a page called Ethics Updates. Very Good Site. PBS - Frontline - Angel on Death Row National Center for Policy Analysis - Report on Crime Capital Punishment - The Death Penalty from the Ontario Centre for Religious Tolerance Capital Punishment Has links to both pro and con sites. Against Capital Punishment Abolition Now!'s Page Great resource for anti-death penalty. Dead Man Talkin' PEACENet's Page on Capial Punishment Death Penalty Discussion Board Participate in discussion and listen to interviews and documentation on specific cases. ACLU's Page on the Death Penalty Links Beyond the Wall There is a section of Death Penalty related sites. The Death Penalty: Individual Participants in American Anti-Death Penalty Institutions Should Shape its Existence A student's paper on the Death Penalty. Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty Information and links from Amnesty International The Case Against The Death Penalty, from Ethics Updates Death Penalty Information Center ... Death Penalty News and Updates Be sure to check out the "Related Links" For Capital Punishment The Death Penalty: A Means to Curb Violent Crime in the United States.

2. Centre For Capital Punishment Studies School Of Law capital punishment general Links. Any internet search on capital punishment or death penalty will reveal a virtually endless list of sites on the subject. http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccps/ccpsResourcesGeneralLinks.htm

Centre for Capital Punishment Studies School of Law, University of Westminster A Project funded by the European Commission Home Internships Resources About Us Contact Us Site Map Resources Methodology Death Penalty Worldwide Map General Links CCPS Publications Topics: Worldwide Caribbean Europe Capital Punishment: General Links Any internet search on "capital punishment" or "death penalty" will reveal a virtually endless list of sites on the subject. Rather than reinvent the wheel, this page aims to direct those interested in the death penalty to a selection of useful and informative sites and the location of online reports which provide both an introduction to the subject and more detailed information. European organisations Reprieve Useful on line resource from UK based organisation focusing mainly on US and offering internships. Hosts Caribbean Justice, a UK based campaign organisation which produces informative newsletters (available on this site) and useful links to sites about the death penalty in the Caribbean. Also well researched lists of links (including a section devoted to the death penalty and religion.) http://www.reprieve.org.uk

3. Resources_generallinks capital punishment general Links. Any internet search on capital punishment or death penalty will reveal a virtually endless list of sites on the subject. http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccps/resources_generallinks.htm

Resources Methodology General Links CCPS Publications Topics by theme Topics by region Home ... Internships Resources Site Map Capital Punishment: General Links Any internet search on "capital punishment" or "death penalty" will reveal a virtually endless list of sites on the subject. Rather than reinvent the wheel, this page aims to direct those interested in the death penalty to a selection of useful and informative sites and the location of online reports which provide both an introduction to the subject and more detailed information. European organisations Reprieve Useful on line resource from UK based organisation focusing mainly on US and offering internships. Hosts Caribbean Justice, a UK based campaign organisation which produces informative newsletters (available on this site) and useful links to sites about the death penalty in the Caribbean. Also well researched lists of links (including a section devoted to the death penalty and religion.)

4. General [M]ayhem - Capital Punishment General Mayhem The Pit Capital Punishment. View Full Version Capital Punishment.philly. personally i think it s hypocritical, barbaric, and antiquated. http://www.genmay.net/archive/index.php/t-343342.html

General [M]ayhem The Pit View Full Version : Capital Punishment philly personally i think it's hypocritical, barbaric, and antiquated. penny for your thoughts? (writing a paper) (in french...buhhhh) Yes. EDIT: No. EDIT: It doesn't seem to actually work as a deterrent, so I'm opposed to it for the most part...although I do believe some criminals need to die. Toy-Yoda eye for an eye imo hella d0pe Originally posted by Toy-Yoda eye for an eye imo imo too, but what about all the faults that have been found? we should only execute people if we are positive they committed the crime. and if they were charge, but didn't commit the crime, but were also a dangerous criminal, kill 'em anyway. capital punishment helps to get rid of the scum of society. but then again, what about the innocents sentenced? i feel life in prison is worse than the death sentence Unified Freedom Some people should be murdered for the crimes they commit. I once heard of a man who kept woman locked in his basement in chains. He kept them naked in the cold, fed them shit, raped them, ect. When he was caught, he truly beleived he did nothing wrong, and that the woman wanted to be there (although he kidnapped them at gunpoint). He also said they could have left anytime they wanted, but they chose to stay. I don't want this person alive, he should be killed.

5. Death Penalty Information (from: Http://www.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim) Anticapital punishment Resources from the ASC's Critical Criminology Division U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in re capital punishment. general Information on the Death Penalty http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/dp.html

Anti-Capital Punishment Resources from the ASC's Critical Criminology Division ASC RESOLUTION ON THE DEATH PENALTY: Be it resolved that because social science research has demonstrated the death penalty to be racist in application and social science research has found no consistent evidence of crime deterrence through execution, the ASC publicly condemns this form of punishment and urges its members to use their professional skills in legislatures and the courts to seek a speedy abolition of this form of punishment (ASC Annual Meeting, Montreal, 1987). (SEE ALSO the American Bar Association call for a moratorium and the statement of the Catholic Bishops of Texas Department of Justice General Information and Statistics Frequently Asked Questions Papers, fact sheets, and Information on the Death Penalty Death Row Inmates/Executions by Race/Victim Death Penalty News and Updates Pending Executions Papers and Commentary Useful Information from Amnesty International Ratifications of International Treaties on the Death Penalty (ACT 50/03/99, March 1999) Death Sentences and Executions in 1998 (ACT 51/01/99, April 1999) Litigation and Legislation U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in re Capital Punishment

6. John Stuart Mill, Speech In Favor Of Capital Punishment that the crime was an exception to his general character rather than a consequence of it, then I The failure of capital punishment in cases of theft is easily accounted http://ethics.acusd.edu/Mill.html

Utilitarianism Egoism Justice Rights Theory ... Ethics Updates ". . . dedicated to promoting the thoughtful discussion of difficult moral issues." Lawrence M. Hinman University of San Diego John Stuart Mill "Speech In Favor of Capital Punishment" About the Author: John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is one of the foremost representative of utilitarian thought as well as one of the most influential of nineteenth century liberals. Influenced by Harriet Taylor (his wife), Mill developed a very humane version of utilitarianism that was sympathetic to women's rights, labor unions, proportional representation, and other liberal themes. His major works include On Liberty Principles of Political Economy Utilitarianism (1863), and his Autobiography (1873). For more information about John Stuart Mill and utilitarianism, see the Utilitarianism page of Ethics Updates About the Article: This speech was given before Parliament on April 21, 1868 in opposition to a bill banning capital punishment that had been proposed by Mr. Gilpin. For more information about the death penalty, see the Punishment and the Death Penalty page of Ethics Updates As You Read, Consider This:

7. MINISTER'S STATEMENT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Minister of Justice and Attorney general of Canada, Anne McLellan responds to the Canadian Police Association's call for reinstatement of the death penalty in Canada. http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/news/nr/1997/deathp.html

Department of Justice MINISTER'S STATEMENT ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Ottawa, August 29, 1997 In response to the resolution passed by the Canadian Police Association today calling for the return of the death penalty in certain cases, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Anne McLellan, issued the following statement: "Capital punishment has been debated and voted on in free votes in the House of Commons twice in the past two decades. In 1976, Parliament voted to abolish capital punishment and in 1987 Parliament voted against reinstating it. It is not the intention of the Government of Canada to reinstate the death penalty," said Minister McLellan. Ref.: Pierre Gratton Minister's Office (613) 992-4621 Aboriginal Justice Learning Network Child Support Family Law Assistance Services Parenting After Divorce ... More... Last Updated: 2003-04-24 Important Notices

8. Capital Punishment [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] permissible. Philosophical defenses of capital punishment typicallydraw from more general discussions of punishment. The issue http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/capitalp.htm

Capital Punishment The applied ethics issue of capital punishment involves determining whether the execution of criminals is ever justified, and, if so under what circumstances it is permissible. Philosophical defenses of capital punishment typically draw from more general discussions of punishment. The issue of corrective justice in legal philosophy distinguishes between two principal theories of punishment: utilitarian and retributive. Accordingly, defenses of capital punishment are usually either utilitarian or retributive in nature. By contrast, most criticisms of capital punishment seek to expose flaws in popular justifications of capital punishment. Thus, in the absence of any good reason for executing a criminal, the critic of capital punishment concludes that the criminal should be allowed to live. Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to that part of this article) Utilitarian Arguments Concerning Capital Punishment Retributive Arguments Concerning Capital Punishment Other Arguments for Capital Punishment Direct Attacks on Capital Punishment Utilitarian Arguments Concerning Capital Punishment Perhaps the most common defenses of capital punishment are on utilitarian grounds. For utilitarians, punishment in general is justified only insofar as it creates a greater balance of happiness vs. unhappiness. From the utilitarian perspective, then, capital punishment is justified if it (1) prevents the criminal from repeating his crime; or (2) deters crime by discouraging would-be offenders. For, both of these contribute to a greater balance of happiness in society. There are several immediate problems with this line of reasoning. First, the burden of proof is on the defender of capital punishment to show that the same effects could not be accomplished with less severe punishment, such as life imprisonment. This is especially pertinent since the goal of utilitarianism is to reduce as much unhappiness as possible and this entails imposing the least severe of two possible punishments when everything else is equal. Italian political theorist

9. PC(USA) - Presbyterian 101 - Capital Punishment In 1959, the 171st general Assembly, believing that capital punishment cannot becondoned by an interpretation of the Bible based upon the revelation of God s http://www.pcusa.org/101/101-capital.htm

Home Presbyterian 101 Social Issues Capital Punishment Presbyterian General Assemblies have been concerned not only for the issue of capital punishment, but also for those imprisoned. The major policy statements of the past forty years have come in 1959, 1977, and 1978. In 1959, the 171st General Assembly, "believing that capital punishment cannot be condoned by an interpretation of the Bible based upon the revelation of God's love in Jesus Christ," called on Christians to "seek the redemption of evil doers and not their death," and noted that "the use of the death penalty tends to brutalize the society that condones it." In 1977, the 189th General Assembly called upon its members to: "a. Work to prevent the execution of persons now under sentence of death and further use of the death penalty; b. Work against attempts to reinstate the death penalty in state and federal law, and where such laws exist, to work for their repeal; c. Work for the improvement of the justice system to make less radical means available for dealing with persons who are a serious threat to themselves and to the safety and welfare of society."

10. PC(USA) - Criminal Justice - Moratorium On Capital Punishment Home Criminal Justice Issues Moratorium on capital punishment. Moratoriumon capital punishment. 212th general Assembly (2000) Presbyterian Church (USA). http://www.pcusa.org/criminaljustice/issues/capital/moratorium.htm

Home Criminal Justice Issues Moratorium on Capital Punishment 212th General Assembly (2000) Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) There is strong evidence that the death penalty is applied in a racist manner. In 1987, in McCleskey v. Kemp , the United States Supreme Court refused to act on data demonstrating the continuing reality of racial bias. Justice William Brennan in his dissenting opinion said: It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined. (McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279, 344 (1987) [Brennan, J. Dissenting]) In 1990, the United States General Accounting Office reported a pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty: Nationwide, 82 percent of those put to death have been convicted of murdering a white person even though people of color are the victims in more than half of all homicides. In 82 percent of their studies, race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving a death sentence, i.e., those who murdered whites were found to be more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks. This finding was remarkably consistent across data sets, states, data collection methods, and analytic techniques. The finding held for high, medium, and low quality studies. (U.S. General Accounting Office, Report GGD-90-57

11. Death Penalty on the web that relate to punishment in general and capital punishment in particular and Richard Wasserstrom, "capital punishment as punishment Some Theoretical Issues and http://ethics.acusd.edu/death_penalty.html

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12. The Economics Of Capital Punishment The economics of capital punishishment, the death penalty the dollar costs of capital punishment versus life in prison capital punishment Quagmire in America, Keith Harries and Derral Cheatwood 1997 p.6) Figures from the general Accounting http://www.mindspring.com/~phporter/econ.html

This thesis is meant to stimulate debate. Please send comments or an antithesis to: Phil Porter phporter@mindspring.com The Economics of Capital Punishment Contention: Sentencing a prisoner to life in prison is a better allocation of resources than sentencing him to be executed. First I'll present figures representing the dollar costs of capital punishment versus life in prison/no parole. Then I'll discuss the deterrent effect as the only legitimate rational justification for capital punishment. Then I'll discuss the externalities of capital punishment. A Duke University study found... "The death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of imprisonment for life." ( The costs of processing murder cases in North Carolina / Philip J. Cook, Donna B. Slawson ; with the assistance of Lori A. Gries. [Durham, NC] : Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, 1993.) "The death penalty costs California $90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - $78 million of that total is incurred at the trial level." (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988).

13. Capital Punishment [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] capital punishment. The applied ethics issue of capital punishment involves determining whether the execution of criminals is ever justified, and, if so under what circumstances it is permissible. defenses of capital punishment typically draw from more general discussions of punishment http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/capitalp.htm

Capital Punishment The applied ethics issue of capital punishment involves determining whether the execution of criminals is ever justified, and, if so under what circumstances it is permissible. Philosophical defenses of capital punishment typically draw from more general discussions of punishment. The issue of corrective justice in legal philosophy distinguishes between two principal theories of punishment: utilitarian and retributive. Accordingly, defenses of capital punishment are usually either utilitarian or retributive in nature. By contrast, most criticisms of capital punishment seek to expose flaws in popular justifications of capital punishment. Thus, in the absence of any good reason for executing a criminal, the critic of capital punishment concludes that the criminal should be allowed to live. Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to that part of this article) Utilitarian Arguments Concerning Capital Punishment Retributive Arguments Concerning Capital Punishment Other Arguments for Capital Punishment Direct Attacks on Capital Punishment Utilitarian Arguments Concerning Capital Punishment Perhaps the most common defenses of capital punishment are on utilitarian grounds. For utilitarians, punishment in general is justified only insofar as it creates a greater balance of happiness vs. unhappiness. From the utilitarian perspective, then, capital punishment is justified if it (1) prevents the criminal from repeating his crime; or (2) deters crime by discouraging would-be offenders. For, both of these contribute to a greater balance of happiness in society. There are several immediate problems with this line of reasoning. First, the burden of proof is on the defender of capital punishment to show that the same effects could not be accomplished with less severe punishment, such as life imprisonment. This is especially pertinent since the goal of utilitarianism is to reduce as much unhappiness as possible and this entails imposing the least severe of two possible punishments when everything else is equal. Italian political theorist

14. Criminal Law - MegaLaw.com of Attorneys general Provides individual attorney general information, high net- Materials that deal with various issues regarding capital punishment. http://www.megalaw.com/top/criminal.php

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15. Capital Punishment A Theological Essay on capital punishment capital punishment. Kenneth Cauthen. This essay is part of Chapter Eight in my Toward a New Modernism the guiding rule of relations between general http://www.frontiernet.net/~kenc/cappun.htm

Capital Punishment Kenneth Cauthen This essay is part of Chapter Eight in my Toward a New Modernism Thesis One: In principle a case can be made on moral grounds both supporting and opposing capital punishment. Thesis two: Concretely and in practice, compelling arguments against capital punishment can be made on the basis of its actual administration in our society. Two different cases can be made. One is based on justice and the nature of a moral community. This leads to a defense of capital punishment. The second is based on love and the nature of an ideal spiritual community. This leads to a rejection of capital punishment. JUSTICE AND THE NATURE OF MORAL COMMUNITY LOVE AND AN IDEAL SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY Agape , Christian love, is unconditional. It does not depend on the worthiness or merit of those to whom it is directed. It is persistent in seeking the good of others regardless of whether they return the favor or even deserve to be treated well on the basis of their own incessant wrongdoing. An ideal community would be made up of free and equal citizens devoted to a balance between individual self-fulfillment and the advancement of the common good. Communal life would be based on mutual love in which equality of giving and receiving was the norm of social practice. Everyone would contribute to the best of ability and each would receive in accordance with legitimate claims to available resources. What would a community based on this kind of love do with those who committed brutal acts of terror, violence, and murder? Put negatively, it would not live by the philosophy of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life." It would act to safeguard the members of the community from further destruction. Those who had shown no respect for life would be restrained, permanently if necessary, so that they could not further endanger other members of the community. But the purpose of confinement would not be vengeance or punishment. Rather an ideal community would show mercy even to those who had shown no mercy. It would return good for evil. The aim of isolation is reconciliation and not revenge.

16. Commission On Capital Punishment | Reports CHAPTER 5 – PROSECUTORS’ SELECTION OF CASES FOR CAPITALPUNISHMENT, CHAPTER 14 – general RECOMMENDATIONS, http://www.idoc.state.il.us/ccp/ccp/reports/commission_report/

Report of the Commission on Capital Punishment April 2002 2 MB Instructions on how to print or save PDF's PREAMBLE 121 KB MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 93 KB COMMISSION STAFF 84 KB ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 87 KB TABLE OF CONTENTS 86 KB 170 KB 191 KB 164 KB ... 179 KB CONCLUSION 60 KB BIBLIOGRAPHY 119 KB APPENDIX 51 KB CONTENTS 53 KB 2. Illinois Death Penalty statute 59 KB 3. Eligibility factors and legislative amendments through 2001 72 KB 4. Summary of state capital murder provisions and aggravating/mitigating factor provisions 90 KB 5. Summary Table 1 - Reversals in Illinois Death penalty cases 55 KB 6. Summary Table 2 - Resentencings in Illinois Death penalty cases

17. TheWBALChannel.com - News - Md. Attorney General Calls For Abolishing Capital Pu Contact the Station. Email This Story Print This Story. Md. Attorney general Calls For Abolishing capital punishment. Curran Stay In Jail Until You Die; Death Penalty Does Not Deter Crime. Greg Ng http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/1945254/detail.html

Search Contact the Station Sign up for E-News Help You Need Automotive ... Weddings // Set DC ad position if(typeof dcadposition == 'undefined')dcadposition = 1; else dcadposition++; document.write(""); document.write(""); document.write(""); News Email This Story Print This Story Md. Attorney General Calls For Abolishing Capital Punishment Curran: Stay In Jail Until You Die; Death Penalty Does Not Deter Crime Greg Ng , Staff Writer POSTED: 9:00 a.m. EST January 30, 2003 UPDATED: 4:26 p.m. EST February 3, 2003 ANNAPOLIS, Md. If the state's attorney general had his way, Maryland's death penalty would be abolished. Attorney General J. Joseph Curran held a press conference Thursday just before noon to speak about what he calls systemic flaws in the death penalty, as well as the possibility that innocent people could be put to death. Instead, Curran said he would prefer the ultimate sanction to be life in prison without the possibility of parole even if it means inmates dying in jail. "Let's make sure that a system that gives us ultimate sanction, let's have the reversibility and the reversibility would be death in prison life in prison without the possibility of parole. You've forfeited the right to be amongst us. Stay there. Stay there until you die. And that's what I strongly support," Curran said. Curran, (pictured, right), cited some instances throughout the nation where people have been wrongfully executed. And he said that's not right.

18. BBC Education - AS Guru - General Studies - Society - Crime And Punishment - Sho Should we reintroduce capital punishment in Britain? capital punishment was suspendedfor five years in 1965. In 1970 it was permanently abolished in Britain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/asguru/generalstudies/society/29crime/crime06.sht

Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index TUESDAY 8th June 2004 Text Only Should we reintroduce capital punishment in Britain? Capital punishment means that a convicted murderer can be sentenced to death - killed because of the severity of their crimes. Capital punishment was suspended for five years in 1965. In 1970 it was permanently abolished in Britain. Opinion polls show that the majority of people in Britain would like to see the reintroduction of capital punishment. Feeling is particularly high after a highly publicised murder (especially when the victim is a child). There have been a number of votes in Parliament, since 1970, considering the reintroduction of capital punishment. Each one has been defeated by over 100 votes. Activity 6 - Capital punishment Here are a number of statements that have been used in debates about the reintroduction of the death penalty. Are they arguing for or against this kind of punishment? Sort the statements into two piles - those that argue for capital punishment and those that would be used in an argument against it. [an error occurred while processing this directive] If you cannot see the Flash Movie playing then you may not have the flash player installed.

19. Capital Punishment Examines Old Testament law and New Testament principles regarding capital punishment. many cases in which God commands the use of capital punishment. We see this first with the acts with regard to capital punishment? The U.S. Solicitor general, in his amicus http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/cap-pun.html

Academics Humanities Social Sciences Sciences Theology ... Faculty Offices Departments Current Issues Publications Conferences/Events Apologetics ... What's New Special Interest Past Features Other Sites Help LU About LU ... Feedback Navigation Site Map Site Index Advanced Search Browsing Help ... LU Home LU Updates Receive LU-Announce Capital Punishment Kerby Anderson Kerby Anderson is the president of Probe Ministries International. He received his B.S. from Oregon State University, M.F.S. from Yale University, and M.A. from Georgetown University. He is the author of several books, including Genetic Engineering, Origin Science, Living Ethically in the 90s, Signs of Warning, Signs of Hope, and Moral Dilemmas . He also served as general editor for Marriage, Family and Sexuality He is a nationally syndicated columnist whose editorials have appeared in the Dallas Morning News, the Miami Herald, the San Jose Mercury, and the Houston Post. He is the host of "Probe," and frequently serves as guest host on "Point of View" (USA Radio Network). Should Christians support the death penalty? The answer to that question is controversial. Many Christians feel that the Bible has spoken to the issue, but others believe that the New Testament ethic of love replaces the Old Testament law.

20. Alternatives To Capital Punishment - The Death Penalty for Christian Social Action in 1962 and resolutions by the Seventh, Ninth, Eleventhand Twelfth general Synods and urges the abolition of capital punishment. . http://www.religioustolerance.org/execut2.htm

ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (a.k.a. THE DEATH PENALTY) Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. Quotations: " He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first. " Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) condemning a public execution of a woman for adultery." John 8:7, (NKJ) " Does it make sense for the state to hire murderers to kill defenseless victims on death row, in order to prove that hiring murderers to kill defenseless victims is morally wrong ?" Anon. " Barbarians. That's what we have become. We kill each other and instead of mourning the tragedy we want the state to satisfy our bloodlust by killing the offender...we must learn to deal with these people in our midst - punish them, but do not become them." Posting to a feedback forum, Detroit News, 1999-MAR-2 Overview: The word " capital " in " capital punishment " refers to a person's head. In the past, people were often executed by severing their head from their body. Surveys in the US and Canada regularly show that a sizable majority of adults are in favor of the death penalty for convicted murderers. Depending upon the exact question asked, 65 to 80% of adults support the death penalty. In 1984, individuals who give greatest support to capital punishment were found to be older, white, male, rich, urban dwellers, politically independent and religious believers.

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