Most of the littoral favor a return of the death penalty as a punishment for serious crime, according to Poll Results Spent on the site «AIF-Vladivostok».
The vast majority of respondents (61%) consider the death penalty, «the only adequate punishment in some cases.» 22% of respondents also advocate «for» death guilty but arguing that «life annuity criminals for our taxes is economically unjustified.»
At the same time, 16% of respondents expressed a negative attitude to such punishment. Thus, 10% of respondents have argued that there is always the risk of a miscarriage of justice. 3% believe that the death penalty is contrary to moral norms, and another 3% said that the death penalty does not prevent crime.
It is noteworthy that the opinion of the littoral those of the majority of Russians. According to the All-Russian Sociological express opinion poll in July 2001 supporters of the death penalty for the most serious crimes against the person were 72%, with 9% of opponents. Three years later, in 2004 already 84% of Russians were in favor of the death penalty, however, in the context of counter-terrorism. And in 2005 the death penalty for terrorists supported 96%, with 3% of opponents. Apparently, the main role was played by the bloody terrorist attacks that took place in Russia in the years (the same as the «Nord-Ost», killing 130 hostages).
The last nationwide survey conducted in 2012 by sociologists Foundation «Public Opinion.» Then it was found that the death penalty want 62% of Russians, writes «AIF-Vladivostok» .
Note that a «decision» taken out and the users of social networks «Classmates»: for an open penalty killers Nasty voted 30310 people, while a prison sentence — 30 times less in 1037 people. Even less was for the version of «put in a mental hospital»: only 450 people.