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Dec 22, 2020 · Dr. Mary Atwell, professor emeritus of criminal justice at Radford University and expert on the death penalty, says that in capital cases involving women defendants, prosecutors attempt to present these womens’ deviation from gender stereotypes as unofficial aggravating factors.
See Figure 1, which displays, for black and white male and female victims, the percentage of homicides that resulted in a capital trial with a penalty phase hearing.103 Figure 1 reveals that the death penalty was sought most in cases with white victims and least in cases with black victims.
- Caisa Elizabeth Royer, Amelia Courtney Hritz, Valerie P. Hans, Theodore Eisenberg, Martin T Wells, J...
- 2014
Oct 19, 2021 · This study examines the role of victim gender and race in: prosecutors’ decisions to seek the death penalty, prosecutors’ decisions to retract death filings, and jury or judge decisions to sentence defendants to the death penalty.
- Jeffery T. Ulmer, Lily S. Hanrath, Gary Zajac
- 2021
Jan 7, 2021 · Female prosecutors will be more likely to seek the death penalty in a capital murder case. Victim characteristics Research has suggested that society places a “different value” on the victims of crime and assigns punishment to offenders accordingly [ 29 ].
- Wendi Pollock, Andrew F. Johnson
- 2021
Oct 10, 2018 · Although there are, at a conservative estimate, at least 500 women facing capital punishment globally, women on death row have to date remained largely invisible, and have never been recognised as a distinct category of rights holders facing unique challenges in the criminal justice system.
Jul 11, 2014 · Women receive the death penalty for a first offense more frequently than men (O’Shea, 1993; Schmittroth, 1991), and O’Shea found that of the 45 women on death row in 1993, almost half received the death penalty for the homicide of an abusive partner. More recently, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (2004) determined that over half ...
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Prison conditions for women under sentence of death. Detention conditions in most states that retain the death penalty fall far short of minimum standards. The unique situation of women on death row merits attention, particularly because we know little about their living conditions.
