Add to ORKGThe law allows executioners to deny responsibility for what they have done by making it possible for them to believe they have not done it. The law treats members of capital sentencing juries quite differently. It seeks to ensure that they feel responsible for sentencing a defendant to death. This differential treatment rests on a presumed link between a capital sentencer\u27s willingness to accept responsibility for the sentence she imposes and the accuracy and reliability of that sentence. Using interviews of 153 jurors who sat in South Carolina capital cases, this article examines empirically whether capital sentencing jurors assume responsibility for the sentence they impose
This article is available at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/290/. The use of victim impa...
Although recent research has suggested that juror understanding of sentencing instructions in capita...
A central precept of death penalty jurisprudence is that only the death worthy should be condemned...
The law allows executioners to deny responsibility for what they have done by making it possible for...
The Capital Jury Project in South Carolina interviewed jurors who sat in forty-one capital murder ca...
What role does remorse really play in capital sentencing? We divide this basic question in two. Firs...
A fatal mistake. A defendant is sentenced to die because the jury was misinformed about the law. The...
You often hear that one reason capital jurors condemn capital defendants is that jurors don\u27t emp...
Jurors exercise unique legal power when they are asked to decide whether to sentence someone to deat...
We examine support for the death penalty among a unique group of respondents: one hundred and eighty...
Capital murder trials present a unique challenge to defense counsel. Many capital defendants are dem...
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor\u27s Council Report
In Weeks v. Angelone, 528 U.S. 225 (2000), the members of the capital sentencing jury asked for clar...
(Excerpt) In capital cases, the jury is often left with the onerous decision about whether to impose...
We examine the role of mercy in capital sentencing along three dimensions. We first explain why merc...
This article is available at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/290/. The use of victim impa...
Although recent research has suggested that juror understanding of sentencing instructions in capita...
A central precept of death penalty jurisprudence is that only the death worthy should be condemned...
The law allows executioners to deny responsibility for what they have done by making it possible for...
The Capital Jury Project in South Carolina interviewed jurors who sat in forty-one capital murder ca...
What role does remorse really play in capital sentencing? We divide this basic question in two. Firs...
A fatal mistake. A defendant is sentenced to die because the jury was misinformed about the law. The...
You often hear that one reason capital jurors condemn capital defendants is that jurors don\u27t emp...
Jurors exercise unique legal power when they are asked to decide whether to sentence someone to deat...
We examine support for the death penalty among a unique group of respondents: one hundred and eighty...
Capital murder trials present a unique challenge to defense counsel. Many capital defendants are dem...
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor\u27s Council Report
In Weeks v. Angelone, 528 U.S. 225 (2000), the members of the capital sentencing jury asked for clar...
(Excerpt) In capital cases, the jury is often left with the onerous decision about whether to impose...
We examine the role of mercy in capital sentencing along three dimensions. We first explain why merc...
This article is available at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/290/. The use of victim impa...
Although recent research has suggested that juror understanding of sentencing instructions in capita...
A central precept of death penalty jurisprudence is that only the death worthy should be condemned...