Executions are mostly a red-state phenomenon -- which helps explain Trump’s advocacy
The lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 13 at 9:45 AM Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected on Wednesday to issue a moratorium on the death penalty in California, granting reprieves to the hundreds of people on death row. By signing his executive order, Newsom will lower the country’s death row population by a quarter.
The death penalty is not a new entrant to the political culture wars, but in recent years, the partisan split on the issue has widened. A Pew Research Center poll completed last year found that a small majority of Americans support the death penalty but that those views were split by party. More than three-quarters of Republicans support executions while only about a third of Democrats agree.
That was also a year in which the Republican candidate for president garnered 37 percent of the vote — as opposed to the 31 percent Trump received four years later. It was a year in which Republicans won 16 House seats, as opposed to the seven seats Trump’s party won in the state in November. In other words, the politics seem to have changed.
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