The combined results of this study indicate that the media is a predictor of general support for capital punishment, and plays a limited, but still statistically significant, role in support for capital punishment with the LWOP option. With that being said, not all media content is the same, although when there are media effects they are consistently found in the positive direction. Television and talk radio consumption predicted general support for capital punishment, while only television consumption predicted support for capital punishment with the LWOP option. When focusing on specific television genres, police-reality programs, news programs, and crime dramas all were associated with higher levels of general support for capital punishment, but only news programs were associated with higher levels of support for capital punishment with the LWOP option.