Survey on waterboarding as a means of torture 2014, by political affiliation

Published by Statista Research Department, May 6, 2014
This survey, conducted across the United States in April 2014, shows public opinion(by party) regarding whether waterboarding, which is inducing a sense of drowning by pouring water on someone with a bag over their face, can be considered as a form of torture. 80 percent of democrats said they considered waterboarding as a form of torture.

Do you think that waterboarding is torture? (by political affiliation)

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Release date

May 2014

Region

United States

Survey time period

April 29-30, 2014

Number of respondents

991 respondents

Supplementary notes

Source does not specify the type of survey used.
The source poses the question as follows: "Do you think that waterboarding, that is inducing a sense of drowning by pouring water on someone with a bag over their face, is torture?"

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