Gallup's latest poll shows support for the death penalty at 61 percent, the lowest level since 1972:deathpenalty_588Is the death penalty going the way of opposition to gays rights? Tea Partiers rally in the Mall, Occupy Wall Street goes national. Are the Sixties here again?All we need is some decent music for the moment. Why hasn't any emerged? Or have I missed something? No social movement can go forward today without a soundtrack.

David Gibson is the director of Fordham’s Center on Religion & Culture.

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