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 years results:
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When the undecided are excluded, 67% of respondents were for the death penalty and 33% against it.
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The increasing trend in support for the death penalty has been discontinued briefly, as has happened a few times before:
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Unusually, women were for the death penalty more often than men:
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TThe younger respondents (aged 1829) were against the death penalty more often than the older ones (aged 30+), but the difference between the two groups was smaller than before:
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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%).
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Urban respondents oppose capital punishment more often than those from rural areas:
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Regionally, the highest percentage of those supporting capital punihsment live in Central Serbia, followed by Vojvodina and Belgrade:
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The better educated repondents are more often against capital punishment:
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The poll (omnibus) was administered by Ipsos Strategic Marketing as a telephone survey on a nationally representative sample (two-stage representative stratified sample), fro 16 to 18 September 2021. The number of respondents in the realized sample was 1,008. The integral report is available here.