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Support for Death Penalty Drops to 50-Year Low in California
Just over half of California’s registered voters – 56 percent – favor keeping capital punishment as a legal sentence, the lowest level of support in the past 50 years, according to a survey by Field Research Corp.
The death penalty is legal in California, although only 56 percent of registered voters support it, while 34 percent want to abolish capital punishment and 10 percent have no opinion.
The survey results are very different from those obtained in the 1980s and 1990s, when support for capital punishment stood at more than 80 percent among registered voters and only 15 percent opposed it.
The last time support for the death penalty in California was lower than it is now was in the 1960s, the height of the hippie movement in cities like San Francisco and Berkeley, when only 51 percent of registered voters favored capital punishment.
California has 74 death-row inmates, tops in the country, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, although only 13 prisoners have been executed in that state since 1976.
A total of 1,280 registered voters in California were interviewed between Aug. 14 and Aug. 28 for the Field Poll, which was released Friday.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/support-for-death-penalty-drops-to-50-year-low-in-california/31140#When:10:04:36Z
