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Research indicates that judges are also susceptible to media coverage when making their rulings. A Stanford University study found “press coverage magnifies the influence of voters’ penal preferences on criminal sentencing decisions” of elected judges for severe violent crimes.
- Race and The Death Penalty
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- Legal Remedies Available to Death Sentenced Individuals
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- Post-Conviction in Capital Cases
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- Innocence and The Death Penalty
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- Public Opinion and The Death Penalty
For those who have shifted away from the death penalty, one...
- International Law and Opinion
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- The Death Penalty for Juveniles
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- Race and The Death Penalty
Feb 24, 2014 · There are more and stronger media effects in the general support for the death penalty model, but the one media variable that was related to support for capital punishment with the option of LWOP was TV News, which we had categorized as a complex form of media coverage.
- Sarah Britto, Krystal E. Noga-Styron
- 2014
As Bandes (2004) noted, media coverage has disproportionately focused on the brutality of notorious death penalty cases. This can potentially have dire consequences. ...
The controversial coupling of closure with capital punishment (Armour & Umbreit, 2006) stems from both mass media coverage and criminal justice system practice, as prosecutors argue to juries that family members can gain closure from the execution of their loved ones’ killer, or that executions heal social or communal wounds (Meade, 1996, pp ...
May 6, 2019 · The researchers find that “sexual degradation shapes media coverage.” Cases that did not involve sexual degradation prompted 2.8 news articles each, on average, prior to the defendant’s indictment. If a victim was raped but not disrobed, the case generated an average of 4.4 articles.
Mar 17, 2013 · Since the mid-1990s, news coverage of the death penalty has increasingly focused on exonerations and wrongful executions. That's changed the debate.
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High-profile cases, media coverage, and public discourse have influenced the reconsideration of certain death penalty practices and contributed to the reevaluation of sentencing procedures. While progress has been made, challenges persist, necessitating continued efforts by advocacy groups to sustain momentum for reform.
