"The Life of David Gale" and the death penalty

Watched "The Life of David Gale". Good film! Although I guess I'm a bit bias, as I both love Kate Winslet AND films about the death penalty.

Not sure why I love films about the death penalty so much, but it probably has something to do with that they make me very emotional. Angry, sad, frustrated. Or maybe I just love to cry. They always make me cry. So did this one.

In the film the statistics "66 percent of the American people support the death penalty" was mentioned. That can't be true I thought. But I googled it, and it seems to be fairly true.

Then I decided to google the same thing, but this time about the Swedish people. I found that the newspaper Aftonbladet had done a survey asking their readers if the death penalty was right or wrong. 40 % said it was right, and 60 % answered that it was wrong.

As I'm not a big fan of Aftonbladet, and as I do not understand why people read it or consider it news, I kept on checking.

I found that another survey had asked if there was any crime that should be possible to be punished by death. Almost half of all Swedes said yes. When the question was changed to "Should Sweden's strongest penalty, life in prison, be changed to death penalty" about 20 % answered that it should.

So, I'm not sure exactly how many of the Swedish population that are pro death penalty. But whether it's 20 %, 40 % or 50 %, it's way too many.

I'm glad though that it seems unlikely that the death penalty will ever be reinstated in Sweden.