Support for the Death Penalty (June 2018)
category | Total |
---|---|
Strongly support | 38% |
Somewhat support | 27% |
Somewhat oppose | 13% |
Strongly oppose | 12% |
Don't know / No opinion | 10% |
category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 20% | 42% | 56% |
Somewhat support | 26% | 21% | 30% |
Somewhat oppose | 20% | 10% | 6% |
Strongly oppose | 22% | 10% | 4% |
Don't know / No opinion | 11% | 17% | 5% |
category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 18% | 19% | 22% |
Somewhat support | 29% | 32% | 22% |
Somewhat oppose | 18% | 19% | 22% |
Strongly oppose | 27% | 17% | 22% |
Don't know / No opinion | 9% | 12% | 12% |
category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 59% | 40% | 63% |
Somewhat support | 27% | 38% | 26% |
Somewhat oppose | 7% | 7% | 5% |
Strongly oppose | 3% | 6% | 2% |
Don't know / No opinion | 3% | 8% | 4% |
category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 16% | 34% | 56% |
Somewhat support | 23% | 33% | 27% |
Somewhat oppose | 24% | 9% | 7% |
Strongly oppose | 29% | 6% | 5% |
Don't know / No opinion | 7% | 19% | 6% |
category | Leaning liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 21% | 12% | 19% |
Somewhat support | 29% | 29% | 10% |
Somewhat oppose | 22% | 23% | 27% |
Strongly oppose | 22% | 28% | 38% |
Don't know / No opinion | 6% | 9% | 7% |
category | Leaning conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 29% | 51% | 74% |
Somewhat support | 41% | 30% | 15% |
Somewhat oppose | 12% | 6% | 5% |
Strongly oppose | 5% | 6% | 4% |
Don't know / No opinion | 13% | 6% | 1% |
category | Democrat | Republican | Tea Party |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 20% | 54% | 64% |
Somewhat support | 26% | 28% | 27% |
Somewhat oppose | 22% | 9% | 2% |
Strongly oppose | 23% | 4% | 3% |
Don't know / No opinion | 10% | 6% | 3% |
category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 40% | 31% | 38% |
Somewhat support | 29% | 19% | 28% |
Somewhat oppose | 13% | 19% | 9% |
Strongly oppose | 12% | 10% | 13% |
Don't know / No opinion | 6% | 22% | 13% |
category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Strongly support | 47% | 31% |
Somewhat support | 24% | 30% |
Somewhat oppose | 11% | 13% |
Strongly oppose | 11% | 13% |
Don't know / No opinion | 6% | 13% |
category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 34% | 38% | 47% |
Somewhat support | 24% | 29% | 28% |
Somewhat oppose | 12% | 13% | 12% |
Strongly oppose | 15% | 13% | 6% |
Don't know / No opinion | 14% | 7% | 8% |
category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 29% | 32% | 45% | 41% |
Somewhat support | 31% | 26% | 26% | 29% |
Somewhat oppose | 15% | 11% | 11% | 14% |
Strongly oppose | 12% | 17% | 10% | 11% |
Don't know / No opinion | 12% | 14% | 8% | 5% |
category | No high school | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 39% | 44% | 40% | 44% | 36% | 25% |
Somewhat support | 20% | 25% | 27% | 31% | 29% | 29% |
Somewhat oppose | 8% | 11% | 13% | 12% | 11% | 21% |
Strongly oppose | 3% | 9% | 12% | 8% | 17% | 18% |
Don't know / No opinion | 30% | 11% | 8% | 6% | 8% | 7% |
category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 48% | 34% | 38% | 26% |
Somewhat support | 24% | 32% | 31% | 22% |
Somewhat oppose | 10% | 13% | 13% | 17% |
Strongly oppose | 8% | 11% | 12% | 25% |
Don't know / No opinion | 10% | 10% | 6% | 10% |
category | The Bible is the word of God, to be taken literally | The Bible is the word of God, not to be taken literally | The Bible is a book written by men |
---|---|---|---|
Strongly support | 53% | 36% | 23% |
Somewhat support | 24% | 33% | 22% |
Somewhat oppose | 8% | 13% | 18% |
Strongly oppose | 4% | 9% | 29% |
Don't know / No opinion | 10% | 8% | 8% |