Add to ORKGPeople are profoundly interested in crimes because the law and legal punishments are supposed to address the fundamental human craving for justice. Courts are embedded in this system of law because we do not rust individuals alone or groups to judge fairly. This essay will describe a pattern which emerged when researchers examined all homicide cases in the state of New Jersey during the years immediately after the reimposition of capital punishment in 1982. Particularly relevant is the pattern of capital punishment for urban and suburban murders, and how those cases were regarded by law enforcement, the media, and the public
The Capital Jury Project in South Carolina interviewed jurors who sat in forty-one capital murder ca...
This Article argues that just as the act of forcing sex upon a rapist is itself rape, the execution ...
Homicide engenders broad moral concerns in society, and its aftermath can be understood as a baromet...
After Furman v. Georgia held that state statutes that allow for the imposition of the death penalty ...
Much of the modem American legal process is dependent, not on particular substantive or procedural r...
Although all jurisdictions with capital punishment currently have at least one statutory aggravating...
New Jersey reinstated capital punishment in 1982. The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed nearly every...
Why do some death row cases receive large amounts of media coverage while the vast go unnoticed? Thi...
One of the “law jobs” of the law of murder is to regulate the level of “penal heat” produced in soci...
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor\u27s Council Report
This article presents the results of an empirical study of intentional homicide cases in Missouri. T...
A proper test of the deterrent effect of the death penalty must consider capital homicides. However,...
The article examines the relationship between homicide and capital punishment. Studies by several re...
In view of (1) escalating national attention, and political and judicial activity centering on capit...
Capital punishment causes the death of someone because that person killed someone else, yet only mur...
The Capital Jury Project in South Carolina interviewed jurors who sat in forty-one capital murder ca...
This Article argues that just as the act of forcing sex upon a rapist is itself rape, the execution ...
Homicide engenders broad moral concerns in society, and its aftermath can be understood as a baromet...
After Furman v. Georgia held that state statutes that allow for the imposition of the death penalty ...
Much of the modem American legal process is dependent, not on particular substantive or procedural r...
Although all jurisdictions with capital punishment currently have at least one statutory aggravating...
New Jersey reinstated capital punishment in 1982. The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed nearly every...
Why do some death row cases receive large amounts of media coverage while the vast go unnoticed? Thi...
One of the “law jobs” of the law of murder is to regulate the level of “penal heat” produced in soci...
Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor\u27s Council Report
This article presents the results of an empirical study of intentional homicide cases in Missouri. T...
A proper test of the deterrent effect of the death penalty must consider capital homicides. However,...
The article examines the relationship between homicide and capital punishment. Studies by several re...
In view of (1) escalating national attention, and political and judicial activity centering on capit...
Capital punishment causes the death of someone because that person killed someone else, yet only mur...
The Capital Jury Project in South Carolina interviewed jurors who sat in forty-one capital murder ca...
This Article argues that just as the act of forcing sex upon a rapist is itself rape, the execution ...
Homicide engenders broad moral concerns in society, and its aftermath can be understood as a baromet...