Long a divisive issue in the United States, capital punishment is now considered morally unacceptable to a record share of Americans, a new survey showed Tuesday.
Gallup said its poll found just 54 percent of U.S. adults said the death penalty is morally acceptable, a decline of 6 percent from last year and 4 points lower than the previous all-time low.
The annual Values and Beliefs survey found that 40 percent of respondents said the death penalty is morally wrong, the highest rating since Gallup began asking the question in 2001. Last year's survey also showed a record-high number of those who favor life sentences over executions.
Politically, the death penalty was deemed acceptable by 37 percent of liberals, a drop from 50 percent in 2018 and 67 percent of conservatives, a decline of 4 points. Fifty-six percent of moderates find the punishment morally sound.
"[U.S. adults'] opinions of the death penalty, which have shown many shifts over the past 80 years, continue to evolve," Gallup wrote in acknowledging the trend last fall. "When given an explicit alternative, for the first time in at least 30 years, more say life imprisonment with no possibility of parole is a better punishment for murder than the death penalty."

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Does it include Chicago gangs?

The only people that should be excluded from death penalty are Islamists suicide bombers. To make sure their 72 maidens are taken away from them