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Survey Says Students Favor
Abolishing Capital Punishment
In conjunction with the current
discussions concerning the aboli
tion of capital punishment in
North Carolina, the UNC News
undertook a campus-wide tele
phone survey Monday niht to
determine student opinion con
cerning this controversial is
sue. The students who were inter
viewed agreed two to one that
capital punishment should be
abolished in North Carolina. Most
of those who opposed complete
abolition of the death penalty
were somewhat conservative as
to what extent it should be used.
Students who favored abolition
ol the North Carolina law did so
for the fallowing reasons:
1. Religious factors definitely
oppose the use of capital punish
ment. "Human life is sacred
man cannot create it; therefore,
lie should not destroy it." This
statement by June White, a grad
uate student, sums up students''
comments concerning the religi
ous aspect of the question.
2. Man is not infallible. He
makes mistakes by commuting
crimes, and courts can make mis
takes in trying him. "Tue execu
tion of many guilty men does not
compensate for the life of oae
man who is innocent," one under
graduate coed affirmed.
3. Capital punishment does not
deter crime enough to warrant
its use. A person who commits
first degree murder, rape, arson,
or first degree burglary, the four
canital offenses in North Caro
lina, does so from anger, fright,
or overruling passion without
thinking at the time that he may
be executed. Furthermore, one
student noted that England, for
example, has no death penalty;
yet England's crime rate is still
lower than that of the United
States.
4. Capital punishment is not
equally or fairly applied, especial
ly in the South. A defendant's
money, social status, and race
often influence legal representa
tion and jury prejudices. "A
Negro with no money will be
more likely to receive the death
sentence for rape than would a
white man with money who com
mitted the same crime," a grad
uate stuednt said.
5. Life imprisonment would
serve the purpose better than the
death penalty. "But," one stu
dent cautioned, "life imprison
ment isn't the answer if people
are paroled in just a few years
they may do it again." Most of
the students interviewed felt that
imprisonment can have rehabili
tative effects if properly sought
and properly provided. "Rehabili
tation is possible in many cases,
and is certainly preferable to tak
ing human life," affirmed a
junior coed.
The majority of students inter
viewed who favored retaining
capital punishment in North Caro
lina gave the following reasons
as support of their opinion:
1. "An eye for an eye, and a
took for a tooth a person who
takes another's life should lose
his own,", a freshman stated.
Another student added, "I think
there are times when destroying
human life is excusable war and
certain crimes, for example."
2. Capital punishment should be
used only when rehabilitation will
not work. In this case it would
serve as a safeguard for Ameri
can society to prevent repition of
the same crime by the same per
son. "I think the average Ameri
can does feel some responsibility
for capital punishment, but we
still need it for protection," a
sophomore student affirmed.
3. The death penalty should be
used if the crime was premedi
tatedif the defendant was aware
of the consequences before com
mitting the capital offense. "If
the person realized what he was
doing, and did it anyway, then
he should be willing to pay the
price," one student commented.
4 "Television and movies have
exaggerated the aspect of exe
cuting the innocent man because
of its use as a good mystery plot.
In actual cases, the possibility
of human error is only one in a
million," another undergraduate
said.
When asked their opinions con
cerning the possibility of televis
ing executions, the purpose being
to make society more aware of
its responsibility for capital pun
ishment and thus more, willing
to have it abolished, most of the
students interviewed thought the
idea "horrible" and "barbaric."
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