USA - Oregon. Poll Shows 57% Oregonians Still Support Capital Punishment

Poll Shows Oregonians Still Support Capital Punishment. A new poll by OPB and DHM Research found that 57 % favor the death penalty for some crimes; 39 % oppose it; 4 % say they don't know. Su Midghall, lead pollster for DHM Research, says those numbers haven't moved in a while. "Historically, Oregonians haven't changed a lot in their support for the death penalty. It was high 10 years ago, meaning over a majority then, it's still over a majority today." The telephone survey polled 500 people throughout Oregon. It was conducted last week, and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4.4 %. The poll found you could make some predictions about who supports and who opposes executions. "More men and more Republicans favor the death penalty and they do tend to be outside of the urban core. The ones who are most opposed are college educated female Democrats," according to Midghall.