Current death penalty support by country ?

[Tender Branson]

I tried to find some polls about it, but didn't find much.

As you may know (or not), a month before the federal election in 2013 Frank Stronach came out in favour of reintroducing the death penalty in Austria.

But: the death penalty is a HUGE no-go in Austria and even his own "Team Stronach" quickly distanced themselves from their leaders comments.

Heck, even FPÖ's Strache strongly ruled out the death penalty when asked about it after the Stronach comments.

So, when it comes to polls, there have been none until this debate was held on PULS 4:

And on 10:15pm, Frank Stronach will be in the PULS 4 election arena, taking questions from the audience and from 2 journalists.

The very accurate pollster OGM does the debate surveys for PULS 4 and they polled the death penalty too.

Result: Only 14% of the 500 debate watchers (representative of the Austrian electorate) support the death penalty.

What about other countries ? Does anyone know ?

[Tender Branson]

Ah yeah, thx. I would have expected that Denmark was equally low.

But what about France/Italy (Antonio maybe) ?

And other countries ...

[Tender Branson]

Germany also with rather low support for re-introduction:



Source: Allensbach surveys, which also do federal election polls

[Tender Branson]

In Sweden, 18% support it - according to a 2011 poll.

Thanks to Swedish Cheese for looking it up.

[Tender Branson]

In Sweden, 18% support it - according to a 2011 poll.

Again, best country in the world.

But we are giving them a run for the money: 14% (see original post).

[Tender Branson]

It's amazing how some countries like Austria and the Scandinavians have seen support collapse under 20%, while others, even the most social-liberal ones like Canada, still have a majority support it. I wonder what explains these differences.

Hmm, I don't know really.

I thought the extremely low murder rate in Austria could have to do with it (in 2014, the murder rate dropped to the lowest level ever measured with 0.4/100.000 people), but that's not explaining it.

Japan, which together with Austria, ranks in the top-10 countries with the lowest murder rates has about 85% support for the death penalty !

Or maybe the low murder rate is a reason here, but not in Japan ? For cultural reasons.

But other European countries also have a low murder rate (like France), but DP support there is at ~50% ...

[Tender Branson]

On this topic, the Nebraska legislature is debating death penalty repeal now:
http://www.netnebraska.org/interactive-multimedia/government/unicameral-legislative-session-88

It would be a great sign if a solidly Republican state would actually abolish it.

But I only believe it if it is actually signed into law ...

[Tender Branson]

On this topic, the Nebraska legislature is debating death penalty repeal now:
http://www.netnebraska.org/interactive-multimedia/government/unicameral-legislative-session-88

It would be a great sign if a solidly Republican state would actually abolish it.

But I only believe it if it is actually signed into law ...

Only 30% of Nebraskans support the death penalty.
Support for the death penalty in America cuts across party lines. In Maryland, for example, abolition was held up for several years by Joe Vallario, the Democratic head of the Judiciary Committee.
Remember, North Dakota and Alaska both don't have the death penalty while California, Delaware, Oregon and Washington do. (of course the reasons for that are more complicated)

Do you have a source for that ?

I seriously doubt that, considering US-wide support is 60-65% and it's traditionally higher in Republican states.

[Tender Branson]

On this topic, the Nebraska legislature is debating death penalty repeal now:
http://www.netnebraska.org/interactive-multimedia/government/unicameral-legislative-session-88

It would be a great sign if a solidly Republican state would actually abolish it.

But I only believe it if it is actually signed into law ...

Only 30% of Nebraskans support the death penalty.
Support for the death penalty in America cuts across party lines. In Maryland, for example, abolition was held up for several years by Joe Vallario, the Democratic head of the Judiciary Committee.
Remember, North Dakota and Alaska both don't have the death penalty while California, Delaware, Oregon and Washington do. (of course the reasons for that are more complicated)

Do you have a source for that ?

I seriously doubt that, considering US-wide support is 60-65% and it's traditionally higher in Republican states.

I do
The bill got preliminary approval today.
Not sure if you know this or not, but a major goal of those against state executions today is to get 25 states to abolish the death penalty. At that point, the supreme court has implied that it'd be banned by the 8th amendment.

That's a poll from the ACLU though.

You need to treat it with 10 truckloads of salt.

PS: I didn't know that with the 25 states, I only knew that that was the goal of the National Popular Vote people.