25 June 2020 :
According to the 2020 Gallup Values and Beliefs poll, released on June 23, 2020, 54% of U.S. adults now say the death penalty is morally acceptable. That number represents a six-percentage-point decline over the course of the last year and is the lowest in the 20-year history of the poll. The results are 17 percentage points below the 71% of respondents who said in 2006 that the death penalty was morally acceptable.
Conversely, the percentage of Americans who said the death penalty is morally wrong reached 40%, the highest rating since Gallup began asking the question in 2001.
The survey found that approval of capital punishment is declining among both liberals and conservatives.
Politically, the death penalty was deemed acceptable by 37 % of liberals, a drop from 50 % in 2018 -- and 67 % of conservatives, a decline of 4 points. 56 % of moderates find the punishment morally sound.
Gallup surveyed more than 1,000 adults in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for the poll, which has a margin or error of 4 points.
