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The Derek Bentley case. In 1953, Derek Bentley was hanged for the murder of a policeman. This case was an important turning point in the campaign to abolish the death penalty. Events. Derek...
Sep 17, 2024 · Three years after Bentley’s execution, the use of the death penalty was further criticised in the case of Ruth Ellis. Ellis shot and killed David Blakely, with whom she had been in an abusive relationship. She had been severely beaten and suffered a miscarriage.
A Case Study: The Oklahoma City Bombing. Extended empirical assessments of the relationship between capital punishment and closure can allow researchers to examine how particular murder victims’ family members experienced the relationship between capital punishment and closure.
Nov 20, 2023 · In terms of how organised crime was involved, the K-League match-fixing cases show three different pathways: (1) illegal betting-related organised crime groups fixing matches to hedge financial risks; (2) organised crime groups fixing matches to make profits; and (3) football players themselves fixing matches as illegal betting operators or ...
Feb 25, 2012 · Many of the papers purporting to find strong effects of the death penalty on state-level murder rates suffer from basic methodological problems: weak instruments, questionable exclusion restrictions, failure to control for obvious factors, and incorrect calculation of standard errors which in turn has led to faulty statistical inference.
- Aaron Chalfin, Amelia M. Haviland, Steven Raphael
- 2013
Mitigation, also referred to as "mitigating factors" or "mitigating evidence," is evidence the defense can present in the sentencing phase of a capital trial to provide reasons why the defendant should not receive a death sentence.
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Jan 7, 2021 · There are numerous factors that may influence a prosecutor’s decision to seek the death penalty in a capital murder case. This study considers offender demographics, district attorney characteristics, victim characteristics, local political and criminal climate, and county financial condition to gain a more holistic understanding of ...
