Abstract
Among a convenience sample of college students, the authors found an unexpectedly large difference in death penalty support between men and women, with only 45% of women supporting capital punishment in contrast to 71% of men. Reasons for supporting or opposing capital punishment varied by gender as well, with men holding more retributive and utilitarian views. Of the measures used in this study, women appeared to respond more to issues of compassion, caring, and mercy, thus providing inferential support for Gilligan’s ‘ethic of care’ hypothesis (1982).
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