UT/TT Poll: Texans Stand Behind Death Penalty
Texans remain strongly in favor of the death penalty and nominally in favor of abortion rights and medically assisted suicide, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
Voters' overwhelming support for the death penalty remains intact, with 73 percent either somewhat or strongly in support and only 21 percent opposed.
"We have had dramatic support for the death penalty for a long time," said poll co-director Jim Henson, who teaches government at the University of Texas at Austin and runs the Texas Politics Project. "And given an alternative, there's not a wholesale rush for the exits."
Comments (13)
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wow. This is just nuts.
Jeremy Jones via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Insane
Sharon Cooper Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We need to turn this red state blue!
Martha Dunkelberger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
so depressing
Pam Karnes via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Who the heck took that poll?
Leigh Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Apparently the majority of Texans missed this TT report:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-dept-criminal-justice/death-penalty/james-liebman-tt-interview/
Perry Dorrell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The only thing that gives me comfort is that TexTrib's polling is notoriously and often comically unreliable.
Enrique Marquez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This played a large role in Craig James decision to enter the Senate race.
El Viajero via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Instead of the usual "line in the sand" of either for or against, we need a diferent approach. We need to call a moratorium on the death penely until we can have legal consequences for police, prosecutorial, and judicial misconduct. Death penealt cases have multiple appeals, but still have all of these problems. Innocents have and will continue to be executed.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas: always behind the rest of the world
Jill Bergene via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Which is almost funny, since the crime rate hardly is affected by the 'threat' of the death penalty...seems like Austin has more and more murders each year.
Jerry Okafor via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If only 51% think it's fairly administered, that means that 22% thinks that even though it's unfairly administered that it should continue in it's history of killing innocent people. I hope it will be a member of their families, it's only fair. Humans learn empathy of they experience the pain of hardship.
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
51% can't read.