Entry:

Vidmar, Neil and Ellsworth, Phoebe C., "American Attitudes Toward the Death Penalty," in The Death Penalty in America: 3rd Edition. Bedau, Hugo Adam (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 65-85, 1982.

Abstract:

Since the late 1960's, the American public has professed support for capital punishment by a majority of more than two to one.

1972-1977

Other Data Sets:

Gallup 1969, 1971, 1972, 1976; Harris 1973, 1977; CBS/NYT, 1977