A recent Gallup Poll measuring public opinion regarding the death penalty revealed a decline in support for capital punishment. The poll found that 66% of Americans support the death penalty for those convicted of murder, down 5% from an earlier 2004 poll and significantly lower than the high of 80% in 1994. In an analysis of Gallup polls on this question from 2001 to 2004, women were more likely to oppose the death penalty than men. Among African-American respondents, 49% opposed the death penalty and 44% were in favor of it. Catholics were less supportive of the death penalty than Protestants, and Catholics who attended church regularly were even less likely to support it than Catholics who seldom attended church. (Gallup Poll Analysis, November 16, 2004). See Public Opinion.