Give a analysis about this. this is about the death penalty Meanwhile, public support for capital punishment as measured by the Gallup Poll registered at 56 percent in 2018, compared to its peak of 80 percent in 1995. Only a few counties, primarily within California and a few southern states, are responsible for sending vastly disproportionate numbers of offenders to death row. More than 2,700 men and women are currently under sentence of death throughout the U. S., although they are distributed in wildly uneven fashion.