A new poll found a record high percentage of Californians are against the death penalty for murder ― showing that public opinion in the state aligns with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) recent decision to place a moratorium on the practice.

In a survey released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California, 62 percent of adults in the state who were asked to choose a penalty for first-degree murder chose life imprisonment without parole over the death penalty, which 31 percent of adults supported.

Support for the death penalty has dropped dramatically since 2000, when California adults were about evenly split on the issue (49 percent in favor of the death penalty, 47 percent in favor of life imprisonment), and even since 2012, when 55 percent of respondents supported life imprisonment versus 38 percent supporting the death penalty.

Earlier this month, Newsom signed an executive order suspending the death penalty in California, calling the practice “immoral” and saying it discriminates against people of color and poor people.

The governor halted executions for the 737 inmates on death row in the state, which houses 25 percent of the nation’s condemned inmates ― the largest death row population in the U.S. However, California hasn’t executed anyone since 2006 due to legal challenges.

Meanwhile, some conservatives criticized Newsom’s policy change, with Republican commentator Carl DeMaio, who has pushed for a recall of the governor, falsely tweeting that Newsom ”ignores [the] will of the voters” by halting the death penalty.