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Death Penalty
Trend: Are You in Favor of the Death Penalty for a Person Convicted of
Murder?
Trend: Are You in Favor of the Death Penalty for a Person Convicted of
Murder?
Trend: In your opinion, is the death penalty imposed -- [ROTATED: too
often, about the right amount, or not often enough]?
Generally speaking, do you believe the death penalty is applied fairly
or unfairly in this country today?
Trend: Next, I'm going to read you a list of issues. Regardless of
whether or not you think it should be legal, for each one, please tell
me whether you personally believe that in general it is morally
acceptable or morally wrong. How about the death penalty?
Trend: Why do you favor the death penalty for persons convicted of
murder? [Open-ended]
Why do you oppose the death penalty for persons convicted of murder?
[Open-ended]
Trend: If you could choose between the following two approaches, which
do you think is the better penalty for murder -- [ROTATED: the death
penalty (or) life imprisonment, with absolutely no possibility of
parole]?
What form of punishment do you consider to be the most humane - the
electric chair, the gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, or
hanging?
Do you feel that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to the
commitment of murder, that it lowers the murder rate, or not?
Yes, does
No, does not
No opinion
%
%
%
2011 Oct 6-9
32
64
4
2006 May 8-11
34
64
2
2004 May 2-4
35
62
3
1991 Jun 13-16
51
41
8
1986 Jan 10-13
61
32
7
1985 Jan 11-14
62
31
7
How often do you think that a person has been executed under the death
penalty who was, in fact, innocent of the crime he or she was charged
with -- do you think this has happened in the past five years, or not?
Yes, in past
five years
No, not
No
opinion
%
%
%
2009 Oct 1-4
59
31
10
2006 May 8-11
63
27
10
2005 May 2-5
59
33
8
2003 May 5-7
73
22
5
Just your best guess, about what percent of people who are executed
under the death penalty are really innocent of the crime they were
charged with?
[BASED ON ADULTS WHO SAY SOMEONE HAS BEEN EXECUTED UNDER THE DEATH
PENALTY IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS WHO WAS INNOCENT OF THE CRIME]
2005 May 2-5
2003 May 5-7
%
%
None
--
*
1-5%
57
55
6-10%
14
13
11-20%
10
8
21-50%
9
15
More than 50%
2
2
No opinion
8
7
Mean
10.7%
11.7%
Median
5%
5%
* Less than 0.5%
Which comes closer to your view -- [ROTATED: states should be allowed
to execute prisoners sentenced to the death penalty by means of lethal
injection, (or) lethal injection of death row prisoners represents
cruel and unusual punishment that should not be permitted]?
Allowed by
means
of lethal
injection
Not permit
lethal injection
No
opinion
2004 Mar 26-28
75%
21
4
Do you favor or oppose the death penalty for -- [RANDOM ORDER]? How
about for -- [INSERT NEXT ITEM]?
Women
Favor
Oppose
No opinion
2002 May 6-9
68%
29
3
The mentally ill
Favor
Oppose
No opinion
2002 May 6-9
19%
75
6
The mentally retarded
Favor
Oppose
No opinion
2002 May 6-9
13%
82
5
Juveniles
Favor
Oppose
No opinion
2002 May 6-9
26%
69
5
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