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Crucially, the media’s relationship with capital punishment and closure has always been at most indirect, surfacing in quotes or statements from journalists, government officials, attorneys, and victims’ families (Gross & Matheson, 2003; Vollum & Longmire, 2007).
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This chapter examines the ways by which authoritarianism and the media affect public perception and support for capital punishment in the ASEAN region by outlining and discussing its...
Aug 4, 2003 · The paper argues that media coverage governed by these requisites gives short shrift to problems of justice and fairness in individual capital cases, and pays even less attention to broader, systemic problems plaguing the American system of capital punishment.
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Many crimes receive extensive media coverage, which provides a challenge for prosecutors, as well as defendants and defense attorneys, when it comes to trying a case. Juries are supposed to be unbiased when deciding a case, despite the news coverage they may have come across before trial.
The identification of closure with capital punishment is a fairly recent development, given the centuries-long history of the death penalty
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Jun 23, 2010 · Capital punishment for murder was finally abolished in the UK and replaced with a mandatory life sentence in all cases by the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, 1965. Nevertheless, since the ...
