• Six-point decrease since last year in moral acceptability of death penalty• Birth control, drinking alcohol, divorce most morally acceptable• Largest gap between liberals and conservatives (52 points) is on abortion CONT. Megan Brenan, Gallup The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. […] Read more »
Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white Americans
People who oppose the death penalty cannot serve on juries in those cases. Crazy City Lady/Shutterstock.com Kevin O’Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin Sentencing a person to die is the ultimate punishment. There is no coming back from the permanence of the death penalty. In the U.S., the death […] Read more »
Americans Now Support Life in Prison Over Death Penalty
For the first time in Gallup’s 34-year trend, a majority of Americans say that life imprisonment with no possibility of parole is a better punishment for murder than the death penalty is. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Americans Not Sold On Trump — Or Democrats
Democratic presidential candidates are proposing lots of progressive policies in this election. And while those policies may resonate with the party base, some of those ideas are not popular with a general election electorate, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. And overall, independent voters said they were not impressed […] Read more »
New Low of 49% Say Death Penalty Applied Fairly
The percentage of Americans who believe the death penalty is applied fairly continues to decrease, falling below 50% this year for the first time. Forty-nine percent now say the death penalty is applied fairly and 45% say it is applied unfairly. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Where the public stands on key issues that could come before the Supreme Court
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin confirmation hearings on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, Kavanaugh would replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who retired in July after three decades on the court. … Ahead of the Senate’s deliberations over Kavanaugh, here’s a look at where […] Read more »