Death penalty supporters accept convicting innocents over acquitting the guilty

Evidence

Prospective jurors who favor the death penalty are not only prone to convict but also believe that it is worse to let a guilty defendant go free than to convict an innocent one wrongly (Young, 2004). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1986

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this preference shift survive exposure to documented exonerations like the Innocence Project?