Public Opinion Poll, September 2022

IIn comparison with last year, the support for capital punishment has decreased slightly (2%), while the number of undecided respondents remained the same (18%). This year’s results:

When the undecided are excluded, 67% of respondents were for the death penalty and 33% against it.

The increasing trend in support for the death penalty has been discontinued briefly, as has happened a few times before:

Unusually, women were for the death penalty more often than men:

TThe younger respondents (aged 18–29) were against the death penalty more often than the older ones (aged 30+), but the difference between the two groups was smaller than before:

Voters of the ruling parties (Progressives and Socialists) strongly support the death penalty (74 and 72%, respectively), as do the right-wing opposition voters, especially those who vote for the Zavetnici party (91%). Voters of left-wing opposition parties oppose the death penalty (Ujedinjeni 53%, Moramo 73%).

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 on a nationally representative sample (two-stage representative stratified sample), from 16 to 18 September 2021. The number of respondents in the realized sample was 1,008. The integral report is available here.