This claim is not well supported because Thurmond does not elaborate on what justice means. He also says that the American public supports the death penalty, and from that means that the death penalty is just. To support this, he states statistics from a Gallup Poll about the death penalty: “A recent Gallup Poll shows that public support for the death penalty is at the highest point recorded in more than half a century, with 79 percent favoring the death penalty for murder” (56). This statistic that Thurmond mentions is not reliable because he says, “The American people agree with me” (56). This statement would imply that the Gallup Poll conducted asked every individual from all 50 states if they supported the death penalty. The American people is not just one state or ten states. It is a vast majority of people all across America. The Gallup Poll takes a small percentage of people into their surveys and estimates the