• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I know it’s exited the news cycle, but I still remember this was a big thing for the left and right to both agree on supporting. I’d very much like to prompt Trump for his opinion on the man to force him to take a side.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 months ago

        That was not the sentiment I saw when it happened.

        I saw incredibly low turnout for people against the action taken but I saw people on the left and right agreeing and with glee. Like everywhere.

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          8 months ago

          Here is an Emerson Poll that found TOTAL 17% of people agree the killing was justified, and the highest demographic was young people with 41% (still not a majority). https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killing-poll

          The poll was about a week after the killing.

          Another small poll of college students found this:

          according to a poll conducted by College Pulse and shared with Newsweek—32 percent of survey participants said he should be sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole; 14 percent chose life imprisonment without the chance of parole; 26 percent preferred a fixed-term prison sentence; and 2 percent believed he should get the death penalty. The remaining respondents chose “other” or “no opinion.”