USA - Americans favour death over life without parole by 50% to 45%.

A majority of Americans (63%) continue to say they favor the death penalty as punishment for murder, the May Gallup Values and Beliefs poll registers. Gallup's long-standing question asks about basic support for the death penalty, but does not explicitly mention an alternative punishment for murderers. Gallup separately asks Americans to choose between the death penalty and "life imprisonment with absolutely no possibility of parole" as the better punishment for murder. Support for the death penalty has been significantly lower using this approach, but Americans still tilt in favor of it by 50% to 45%. The South has the highest percentage of Americans who believe the death penalty is morally acceptable of any U.S. region, at 63%. The East has the lowest percentage of those who believe the death penalty is morally acceptable, at 53%. 76% of Republicans express moral acceptance of this practice, while 43% of Democrats say the same. Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted May 6-10, 2015, with a random sample of 1,024 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.