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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.
- Family Violence
Moreover, family violence tends to occur in a...
- Family Violence
Nov 21, 2013 · Abstract. The relationship between capital jury instructions and imposition of the death penalty in the United States is analyzed through 36 semi-structured interviews collected as part of the archives of the national Capital Jury Project (CJP) at the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York in Albany.
- John Robert Barner
- 2014
Summary. More than 70% of the world’s countries are considered to have abolished the death penalty. The nearly 30% of countries retaining the death penalty and carrying out executions are found primarily in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, and some states in the United States.
A comparative analysis of the death penalty in global contexts reveals a diverse array of approaches and attitudes toward capital punishment. This section explores international perspectives on the death penalty, contrasting the prevalence and methods of execution in different countries.
- Data
- Variables
- Analytical Strategy
- Results
- Discussion
- Limitations
Data for this project came from a combination of public sources. Offender data was obtained from the Texas Judicial Branch database (2019), the Texas Prison Inmates database (“The Texas Tribune”, ), and The Faces of Death Row database . District Attorney characteristics came from the Texas State Directory (“District Attorneys by County”, ). Informa...
The dependent or outcome variable in the current research is “death sought”. This variable is coded dichotomously as 1 = death penalty sought, 0 = death penalty not sought. In accordance with the research questions, independent variables in the current analysis were selected to examine the effects of the following on the likelihood that a district ...
The current research will examine a specific prosecutorial decision in 436 trials, with 436 distinct defendant, victim, and offense characteristics, that took place in only 49 counties. This means that several counties, and their corresponding district attorneys, tried more than one of the cases being examined here. Because county variables (includ...
Table 2 illustrates the results of the multivariate models for predictors of whether the death penalty was sought. The first model in this table includes taxable value as the measure of county financial condition. Here we can see that the model is statistically (p= .000) and substantively significant. In fact, the model explains 33% of the variance...
The debate about the death penalty as a deterrence for crime will continue particularly in states with high levels of death penalty cases. The theory of deterrence is ultimately carried out through public polices and at a more basic level, the decision to seek the death penalty at the case level. This study does not directly test the theory of dete...
While this study does have some interesting findings regarding the application of the death penalty in Texas, it is important to also note some limitations. First, it is reasonable to believe that county financial variables might have a disproportionate effect on the decisions of prosecutors in small counties with relatively little revenue. While t...
- Wendi Pollock, Andrew F. Johnson
- 2021
This testimony was debunked in 1992, and DNA evidence proved that Krone could not have committed the crime. DNA evidence from the crime scene matched that of Kenneth Phillips – a man who lived near the bar in which Ancona had been killed, and who had a history of violence against women.
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