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title: 'Pew Poll Shows Modest Decline in Death Penalty Support'
description: 'The Pew Research Center recently released a poll on a variety of social issues, including the death penalty. The poll found that 64% of the U.S. adults…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/pew-poll-shows-modest-decline-in-death-penalty-support'
section: news
date: '2007-06-21T23:13:04-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:24:45-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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! The **Pew Research Center** recently released a poll on a variety of social issues, including the death penalty. The poll found that 64% of the U.S. adults support the imposition of the death penalty for persons convicted of murder. This is a decline of 14 percentage points from 1996, when 78% of respondents said they supported it. The Center reported that support for the death penalty was higher among men than women, and was substantially higher among whites (69%) than among African Americans (44%) and Hispanics (45%).  
 (Yahoo News, June 20, 2007; based on Pew Research Center Poll, March 22, 2007).

See DPIC's latest report, [**"A Crisis of Confidence: Americans' Doubts About the Death Penalty."**](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/A-Crisis-of-Confidence.pdf)