It has been found in 2020 by the Pew Research Center that support for the death penalty is 65% instead of 52% when respondents are polled online rather than by telephone call.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...phone-surveys/
Since Gallup are asking their question only by phone calls, it is no exaggeration to say that what they measured over the few past years is not a decrease in support for the death penalty as the mainstream media say, but an increase in the coercive nature of the modern thought police.
Indeed, we always talk about Gallup antique question asking merely to polled voters whether they support the death penalty "for a person convicted of murder", or other polls asking whether in such a case they prefer the death penalty or life imprisonment (assuming that the latter can be maintained "with absolutely no possibility of parole" without the death penalty, which is a lie — if the death penalty disappeared, life without parole would be next).
However, the issue has never been whether the citizenry supports or prefers the death penalty for the thousands of offenders who are convicted of murder every year in the United States, but only for a few of the most horrific cases for which capital punishment is or can be applied today.
Thus, Joseph Bessette and Andrew Sinclair conducted a study in 2019 and a sequel in 2020 to better assess what the people think about the ultimate penalty:
We asked respondents whether they favored the death penalty for any of fifteen specific types of murder commonly found in death penalty statutes and among those sentenced to death in the United States.
Almost half of the respondents who opposed the death penalty on the first question, when given this list, selected at least one crime from it.
Of all the respondents who answered these questions: 86% selected at least one crime, including 80% who selected "raping and murdering a child" and 75% who selected "killing dozens of people as part of a terrorist attack."
At the low end, only 49% selected "killing someone in the course of a robbery."
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/arti...ty_790058.html
http://s10294.pcdn.co/wp-content/upl...une-8-2021.pdf
A similar result is found even when the question merely alludes to the crime without details:
https://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/...hest-ever.html
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