The data were analyzed to determine how questions used to screen jurors in criminal cases were associated with support or opposition to capital punishment. In a mass communications experiment, students favoring capital punishment were assigned supplemental reading material consisting of the ACLU's pamphlet on reasons to abolish the death penalty; the placebo document consisted of a government publication arguing for the need to establish standards in criminal justice. Significant beliefs were discovered in the direction of abolition of the death penalty: adult offenders can be rehabilitated; support for drug testing of professional athletes; racial discrimination exists in the criminal justice systems; race figures prominently in who gets the death penalty; and females are less likely to support the death penalty for females.