Wrongly Convicted of Death Penalty Offenses (December 2022)
category | Total |
---|---|
Never | 3% |
Almost never | 27% |
Occasionally | 45% |
A great deal of the time | 11% |
Don't know/No opinion | 15% |
Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 1% | 5% | 4% |
Almost never | 11% | 22% | 46% |
Occasionally | 56% | 44% | 36% |
A great deal of the time | 17% | 11% | 2% |
Don't know/No opinion | 15% | 19% | 11% |
Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 0% | 0% | 1% |
Almost never | 8% | 16% | 9% |
Occasionally | 53% | 61% | 54% |
A great deal of the time | 16% | 14% | 19% |
Don't know/No opinion | 23% | 8% | 17% |
Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 5% | 4% |
Almost never | 50% | 41% | 46% |
Occasionally | 38% | 34% | 36% |
A great deal of the time | 1% | 3% | 3% |
Don't know/No opinion | 6% | 17% | 11% |
Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 2% | 2% | 5% |
Almost never | 10% | 18% | 44% |
Occasionally | 57% | 46% | 35% |
A great deal of the time | 19% | 12% | 3% |
Don't know/No opinion | 12% | 21% | 13% |
Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 0% | 3% | 2% |
Almost never | 14% | 10% | 8% |
Occasionally | 55% | 55% | 63% |
A great deal of the time | 13% | 19% | 23% |
Don't know/No opinion | 18% | 14% | 4% |
Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 5% | 4% |
Almost never | 42% | 43% | 46% |
Occasionally | 37% | 36% | 33% |
A great deal of the time | 4% | 2% | 4% |
Don't know/No opinion | 12% | 15% | 12% |
Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 4% | 3% | 2% |
Almost never | 34% | 12% | 19% |
Occasionally | 42% | 42% | 51% |
A great deal of the time | 8% | 26% | 10% |
Don't know/No opinion | 13% | 18% | 18% |
Category | Male | Female |
---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 1% |
Almost never | 34% | 20% |
Occasionally | 43% | 46% |
A great deal of the time | 6% | 14% |
Don't know/No opinion | 12% | 18% |
Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 2% | 3% |
Almost never | 21% | 28% | 32% |
Occasionally | 47% | 42% | 48% |
A great deal of the time | 11% | 12% | 6% |
Don't know/No opinion | 16% | 16% | 11% |
Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 0% | 6% | 3% | 2% |
Almost never | 24% | 23% | 27% | 33% |
Occasionally | 38% | 47% | 48% | 42% |
A great deal of the time | 14% | 9% | 9% | 11% |
Don't know/No opinion | 24% | 15% | 13% | 11% |
Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 0% | 4% | 2% | 7% | 3% | 1% |
Almost never | 21% | 26% | 24% | 27% | 29% | 28% |
Occasionally | 38% | 46% | 43% | 39% | 44% | 51% |
A great deal of the time | 21% | 10% | 10% | 12% | 9% | 10% |
Don't know/No opinion | 20% | 14% | 20% | 15% | 14% | 9% |
Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 4% | 4% | 1% | 1% |
Almost never | 31% | 29% | 21% | 18% |
Occasionally | 38% | 44% | 55% | 52% |
A great deal of the time | 11% | 9% | 9% | 12% |
Don't know/No opinion | 15% | 13% | 13% | 17% |
Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Never | 5% | 4% | 1% | 1% |
Almost never | 25% | 33% | 18% | 22% |
Occasionally | 43% | 41% | 57% | 32% |
A great deal of the time | 10% | 9% | 13% | 16% |
Don't know/No opinion | 17% | 13% | 11% | 28% |