According to Otterbein’s research, communities most likely to accept alternatives to capital punishment are those where:

a. government is stable, but fear of crime is high.
b. citizens have stable, mature governments in which crime and fear of crime is not high.
c. public opinion is against the use of the death penalty.
d. prisons are considered secure enough to make escape from a life sentence extremely unlikely.


b. citizens have stable, mature governments in which crime and fear of crime is not high.

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