“Defying voters, the Governor of California will halt all death penalty executions of 737 stone cold killers,” Trump said. More than three-quarters of Republicans support executions while only about a third of Democrats agree. At the same time, a poll from PPIC found that most Californians preferred life imprisonment to the use of the death penalty. Since 2014, there have been 134 executions in the United States, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Three were in Virginia, the only state that didn’t support Trump in 2016 where executions have occurred since then.

Source: Washington Post March 13, 2019 13:46 UTC