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Racial Sympathy and Support for Capital Punishment: A Case Study in Concept Transfer
Beliefs about race, especially racial resentment, are key predictors of public support for capital punishment and punitiveness generally. Drawing on a conceptual innovation by political scientist Jennifer Chudy, we explore the utility of transferring ...
Kellie R. Hannan +5 more
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Application of Capital Punishment for Narcotics Offenders in the Perspective of Responsive Law
This study employs a normative legal research method, grounded in the Nonet and Selznick theory of responsive law, to examine the implementation of capital punishment for narcotics offenders in Indonesia. Evaluating the punitive measures through the lens
Muhammad Alief Yunas Pahlevi +2 more
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Capital Punishment: Islamic Criminal Law Perspective
This paper delves into the multifaceted dimensions of capital punishment within Islamic criminal law, examining its application and underlying objectives.
Annisa Hafizhah +2 more
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Catholics and capital punishment: Do Pope Francis’s teachings matter in policy preferences?
In the United States, Catholics make up more than 50 million members of the adult population, or about one in five Americans. It is unclear whether their religious affiliation shapes Catholics’ views on public policy issues, ranging from the legality of ...
F. Cullen +5 more
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The Legacy of Blood Atonement? Gauging Mormon Support for the Death Penalty
American support for the death penalty has declined over time, but conservative religious groups have exhibited more favorable attitudes toward this practice than their mainline religious and secular peers.
John P. Bartkowski +2 more
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The right to life This article deals with the practical application of the fundamental right to life with special focus on abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia. From a Christian ethical perspective and the biblical principle of life it is argued
J.M. Vorster
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This research is an investigation into the language use in peoples opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. Capital punishment was executed to six drug convicts on January 18th , 2015.
Arina Isti’anah
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE PERPECTIVE OF NON DEROGABLE RIGHTS
Capital punishment is still exist as one of kind punishments in Indonesia. The existence of capital punishment is based on the Penal Code and other laws. On the other hand, however, according to Constitution 1945, MPR Decree Number XVII/MPR/1988 on Human
Setiawan Noerdajasakti
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Are Forensic Experts Already Biased before Adversarial Legal Parties Hire Them? [PDF]
This survey of 206 forensic psychologists tested the "filtering" effects of preexisting expert attitudes in adversarial proceedings. Results confirmed the hypothesis that evaluator attitudes toward capital punishment influence willingness to accept ...
Tess M S Neal
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Empirical studies of Chinese public opinion on capital punishment are very rare. Almost all past studies suffered from questionable survey designs and/or nonrepresentative/nonrandom sampling (e.g., student samples).
Jianhong Liu, B. Liang
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