Add to ORKGOnly legal facts should affect the application of the death penalty. This maxim is manifested in the U.S. constitution and stipulated by the Supreme Court. With regard to extra-legal economic factors, it has been applied to practice from 1950 to 1990 with the exception of two states: For Louisiana and Utah a significant countercyclical enforcement is found. A marginal increase of the economic conditions in these two states significantly reduces the probability of the performance of executions in a certain year.
American death sentences have both declined and become concentrated in a small group of counties. In...
This study employs a panel of U.S. state-level data over the years 1978-1997 to estimate the deterre...
In the 1972 case of Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court invalidated virtually all exi...
The central tenet of the economic approach to criminal law is deterrence. This approach provides a u...
Since 1976, the United States has seen over 1,400 judicial executions, and these have been highly co...
In 1972 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the application of the death...
Both legal scholars and social scientists have leveraged new research evidence on the deterrent effe...
Over the course of the last 50 years, scholars have emphasized the role that political processes pla...
The death penalty is in decline in America and most death penalty states do not regularly impose dea...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68316/2/10.1177_096466399300200304.pd
There is a question whether the execution rate is appropriate to examine the deterrent effect of dea...
The constitutionality of the death penalty has been called into question numerous times. Most common...
Death penalty has been practiced by most societies in the past but a growing number of countries hav...
Ehrlich\u27s first point is that if one is searching for deterrence it is the law in action (i.e., t...
This paper explores execution rates among states where the death penalty is legal. Following the Sup...
American death sentences have both declined and become concentrated in a small group of counties. In...
This study employs a panel of U.S. state-level data over the years 1978-1997 to estimate the deterre...
In the 1972 case of Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court invalidated virtually all exi...
The central tenet of the economic approach to criminal law is deterrence. This approach provides a u...
Since 1976, the United States has seen over 1,400 judicial executions, and these have been highly co...
In 1972 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Furman v. Georgia that the application of the death...
Both legal scholars and social scientists have leveraged new research evidence on the deterrent effe...
Over the course of the last 50 years, scholars have emphasized the role that political processes pla...
The death penalty is in decline in America and most death penalty states do not regularly impose dea...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68316/2/10.1177_096466399300200304.pd
There is a question whether the execution rate is appropriate to examine the deterrent effect of dea...
The constitutionality of the death penalty has been called into question numerous times. Most common...
Death penalty has been practiced by most societies in the past but a growing number of countries hav...
Ehrlich\u27s first point is that if one is searching for deterrence it is the law in action (i.e., t...
This paper explores execution rates among states where the death penalty is legal. Following the Sup...
American death sentences have both declined and become concentrated in a small group of counties. In...
This study employs a panel of U.S. state-level data over the years 1978-1997 to estimate the deterre...
In the 1972 case of Furman v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court invalidated virtually all exi...