Public Opinion Poll, September 2021

In 2021, the upward trend in support of the death penalty in Serbia continues. This year’s results:

When the undecided are excluded, 69% of respondents were for the death penalty and 31% against it.

The increasing trend in support for the death penalty continues:

Women were against the death penalty more often than men:

The younger respondents (aged 18–29) were against the death penalty more often than the older ones (aged 30+):

Voters of the ruling party (Serbian Progressive Party) support the death penalty significantly more often than any others (75%), while those for the opposition, Freedom and Justice Party, reject it by a majority of two thirds:

Urban respondents oppose capital punishment more often than those from rural areas:

Regionally, the highest percentage of those supporting capital punihsment live in Central Serbia, followed by Vojvodina and Belgrade:

The better educated repondents are more often against capital punishment:

The poll (omnibus) was administered by Ipsos Strategic Marketing as a telephone survey (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) on a nationally representative sample (three-stage random representative stratified sample), from 23 to 26 September 2021. The number of respondents in the realized sample was 1,010. The integral report is available here.