Public Opinion
,Dec 06, 2022
In a year that featured massive campaign advertising attempting to portray legal reformers as responsible for increases in violent crime, candidates committed to criminal legal reform or who promised to continue statewide moratoria on executions p…
Deterrence
,Innocence
,Public Opinion
,Apr 17, 2015
(Click image to enlarge) Polls released this week by Pew Research Center and CBS News show that public support for the death penalty has declined to near historic lows. Both polls reported that 56% of Americans support the death penalty. …
Innocence
,Race
,Public Opinion
,Mar 31, 2014
Click to enlarge Further analysis of a recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that support for the d…
Public Opinion
,Jun 12, 2018
Just under 54% of Americans say they support the death penalty and 39% say they are opposed, according to the results of a Pew Research poll released June 11, 2018. The poll — administered between April 25 and May 1, one month after
Public Opinion
,Feb 14, 2014
Support for the death penalty has fallen sharply by 23 percentage points since 1996, reaching its lowest level in almost two decades, according to a recent poll by the
Public Opinion
,Sep 30, 2016
Public support for the death penalty fell by 7 percentage points in the last year, with fewer than half of Americans (49%) now saying they support the death penalty, according to a national Pew Research Center poll released on September 29. The po…
Public Opinion
,Jun 04, 2021
A new poll by the Pew Research Center reports that support for the death penalty is down in the United States but may be higher than previous estimates because some poll respondents are unwilling to admit to a live pollster that t…
