In Defense of the Right to Life: Analyzing Factors Affecting Filipino Opinion About Death Penalty
Table 3. The death penalty should be re-instated for peoples who were proven by the
courts to have really committed heinous crimes, Bivariate correlations
Urban-Rural
Area
Sex
Age
Highest educational attainment
Religion
Religiosity
I will feel safe from any crime if there is death penalty
Heinous crimes in one’s locality in the past 3 years
Extent of worry that one might be a victim of a heinous crime
Whether household has experienced crime
Follow the law or religious principles
A life that is taken is also paid for by a life
Most people in prison are actually guilty of committing the crimes they are in
jail for
Justice (Justice repairs harms done/provides comfort to victims/speedy
disposition of justice)
Wrongful (Possibility of wrongful DP sentencing)
Alternatives (Alternatives to DP)
Correlation
coefficients
0.088**
-0.044*
0.067**
0.027
-0.101**
0.025
-0.024
0.357**
-0.027
0.094**
0.03
0.108**
0.106**
0.062**
-0.367**
-0.125**
0.237**
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