Add to ORKGWe examine support for the death penalty among a unique group of respondents: one hundred and eighty-seven citizens who actually served as jurors on capital trials in South Carolina. Capital jurors support the death penalty as much as, if not more than, members of the general public. Yet capital jurors, like poll respondents, harbor doubts about the penalty\u27s fairness. Moreover, jurors--black jurors and Southern Baptists in particular--are ready to abandon their support for the death penalty when the alternative to death is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, especially when combined with a requirement of restitution. Support for the death penalty therefore exists side-by-side with doubts about its fairness and a distinc...
The death penalty is a controversial subject in the United States and has been a topic of debate for...
The Supreme Court’s inquiry into the constitutionality of the death penalty has overlooked a critica...
As the Supreme Court has said, time and again, death is different: It is different in kind from any...
We examine support for the death penalty among a unique group of respondents: one hundred and eighty...
Legal practices vary in states which allow the death penalty, but a jury can usually levy or recomme...
The state of public opinion regarding the death penalty has not experienced such flux since the late...
A fatal mistake. A defendant is sentenced to die because the jury was misinformed about the law. The...
Capital punishment causes the death of someone because that person killed someone else, yet only mur...
Forty jurisdictions sanction capital punishment. However, public opinion polls of support for the de...
Attitudes toward the death penalty are multifaceted and strongly held, but little research outside o...
Although the support of capital punishment is on the decline, 60 percent of Americans still support ...
A recent national poll found that sixty-five percent of Americans favor the death penalty. That\u27s...
For opponents of capital punishment, these would appear promising times. Not since 1972, when the Su...
This paper investigates the conditional demands of Death-Is-Different jurisprudence in the United St...
Although supported in principle by two-thirds of the public and even more of the States, capital pun...
The death penalty is a controversial subject in the United States and has been a topic of debate for...
The Supreme Court’s inquiry into the constitutionality of the death penalty has overlooked a critica...
As the Supreme Court has said, time and again, death is different: It is different in kind from any...
We examine support for the death penalty among a unique group of respondents: one hundred and eighty...
Legal practices vary in states which allow the death penalty, but a jury can usually levy or recomme...
The state of public opinion regarding the death penalty has not experienced such flux since the late...
A fatal mistake. A defendant is sentenced to die because the jury was misinformed about the law. The...
Capital punishment causes the death of someone because that person killed someone else, yet only mur...
Forty jurisdictions sanction capital punishment. However, public opinion polls of support for the de...
Attitudes toward the death penalty are multifaceted and strongly held, but little research outside o...
Although the support of capital punishment is on the decline, 60 percent of Americans still support ...
A recent national poll found that sixty-five percent of Americans favor the death penalty. That\u27s...
For opponents of capital punishment, these would appear promising times. Not since 1972, when the Su...
This paper investigates the conditional demands of Death-Is-Different jurisprudence in the United St...
Although supported in principle by two-thirds of the public and even more of the States, capital pun...
The death penalty is a controversial subject in the United States and has been a topic of debate for...
The Supreme Court’s inquiry into the constitutionality of the death penalty has overlooked a critica...
As the Supreme Court has said, time and again, death is different: It is different in kind from any...