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capital punishment

Amy Williams and Philip Schwadel

Political, religious beliefs limit education’s impact on death penalty support

October 6, 2025

Society & Culture

Nebraska death penalty

Research ties death penalty support to resource scarcity

August 29, 2018

Society & Culture

Lisa Kort-Butler, a Nebraska sociologist who studies how different factors may affect views of capital punishment, has culled 40 years of state social-attitudes survey data about Nebraska respondents' views of the death penalty.

Amid historic vote, research shows death penalty attitudes shifting

November 21, 2016

Society & Culture