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Among the groups most supportive of the issue are white evangelical Protestants; more than 7 in 10 support the use of the death penalty.

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Executions have increasingly been the domain of red states, thanks largely to Texas’s dominance in capital punishment. 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. All the rest were in red states. Since about 2000, an increasing percentage of executions have occurred in states that backed Trump.

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It’s not new that there’s a partisan divide on the death penalty. But it is relatively new that executions are almost solely the domain of more conservative states. As with so many other issues — climate change, abortion, taxes — there is a wide gulf on how states approach capital punishment.