Small majority favor death penalty

[village_person]

Bali Nine: Australian poll showing support for death penalty misleading say critics

A poll finding a slim majority of Australians support the death penalty for Australian drug traffickers – seized upon by the Indonesian government to justify the killing of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran – is crude and misleading, according to critics.

The "snap" poll by Roy Morgan Research was conducted in January by sending an SMS to the company's database of people it had previously interviewed, an uncommon method.

But what has most concerned pollsters and lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran is the question that was asked, and the ones that were not.

Morgan asked: "In your opinion if an Australian is convicted of drug trafficking in another country & sentenced to death, should the penalty be carried out?"

Those contacted were asked to reply Y for "Yes" and N for "No".

Just over half of the 2123 people respondents, 52 per cent, replied by typing "Y" on their phones.

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http://www.smh.com.au/national/bali-nine-australian-poll-showing-support-for-death-penalty-misleadin...

Things that make you go mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[nevynreally]

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@poddster wrote:

If the penalty for a a crime in the particular country is the forfeiture of ones life, and the person still goes ahead and does the crime then why should the penalty not be imposed?

Taking risks  comes at a cost. Don't want to pay the cost? don't take the risk, its as simple as that

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Yep. Pretty much the same as running the country. Not owning up to your own short comings? Screams bogan.

[***super_nova***]

Poll can be designed in a way that gets you the result you want.  If it was YES of NO or UNDECIDED, the result would have been dramatically different.  I am very strongly against death penalty, but I also do not believe that Australians (or Americans or Brits, or Europeans) deserve to be treated differently to others.

[poddster]

*SN*  the point that I am making is that if a person knows the consequences of an action ans still disregards the penalty and goes ahead with that action then why complain?

[punch*drunk]

There's a difference between agreeing with the death penalty and agreeing that people should abide by the laws of the country they are visiting or suffer the consequences.

[debra9275]

I know a company that does that😀

So I don't respond to their surveys any more

[nevynreally]

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@debra9275 wrote:
I know a company that does that😀

So I don't respond to their surveys any more

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Deflection at it's best.

[debra9275]

I beg your pardon 😨

Obviously I was commenting on the way some surveys and polls are conducted to get certain results.

So that is a deflection from what exactly?

[vicr3000]

Deb

Although I haven't looked into it in detail and normally Morgan are good pollsters,

I just get the feeling that the method they used, the database of people they contacted

does not give a true and accurate figure of who is for and against.

I might go and have a look at it in more detail.

Your thoughts ?

I will say that I think their is far less sypathy for this lot than possible some others who have been in jail OS

for the same sort of thing.

[village_person]

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@nevynreally wrote:

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The bigger mmmmmmm is a government that uses a radio stations poll to justify executing anyone.

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And the best way to avoid facing execution is what?