USA - North Carolina. 72 % of North Carolinians support the death penalty, a News & Record/High Point University Poll found.

72 % of North Carolinians support the death penalty, a News & Record/High Point University Poll found. In that same poll question, 24 % of respondents said they did not support the death penalty. 4 % didn't know or refused to answer. The poll, conducted in late September, sampled 446 people in live telephone interviews. The margin of error was 4.6 % points. The death penalty was reinstated in North Carolina in 1977 but is currently on hold. People can be sentenced to death, but death sentences aren't being carried out because of the Racial Justice Act and the debate about using lethal injection. The poll found that 64 % of respondents believe lethal injection is the most humane form of punishment. That's followed by 9 % who believe the firing squad is most humane, 6 percent who prefer hanging a person, 4 % who prefer the gas chamber and 2 % who think the electric chair is most humane. 7 % didn't have an answer, and 2 % refused.