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Body Count Politics: Quantification, Secrecy, and Capital Punishment in China
Law and Social Inquiry, 2020As quantification has become socially ubiquitous, the disclosure of numerical data emerges as a key feature of legal reform and global governance.
Tobias Smith
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Public Opinion of Capital Punishment: An Intersectional Analysis of Race, Gender, and Class Effects
Criminal Justice Review, 2019Extant research on the demographic correlates of capital punishment opinion has separately analyzed race, gender, and class. Intersectionality has shown a flaw of this approach is that these characteristics overlap and interact to shape people’s ...
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A Factful Perspective on Capital Punishment
Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2019Substantial progress has been made towards worldwide abolition of capital punishment, and there are good reasons to believe that more progress is possible.
David T. Johnson
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, 2019
Against Capital Punishment offers an innovative proceduralist argument against the death penalty. Worries about procedural injustice animate many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment.
Benjamin S. Yost
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Against Capital Punishment offers an innovative proceduralist argument against the death penalty. Worries about procedural injustice animate many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment.
Benjamin S. Yost
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Distrust and Empathy: Explaining the Lack of Support for Capital Punishment Among Minorities
Criminal Justice Review, 2018Public opinion polls show that the majority of people in the United States support capital punishment but that is because the majority of White Americans support it. Research on the opinions of non-Whites consistently finds less support.
Wanda D. Foglia, Nadine M. Connell
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Criminal justice studies, 2018
Research has shown that attribution theory and racial attitudes are among the most consistent attitudinal predictors of capital punishment opinion. This study explores the overlap of these two constructs, racial attribution, and its ability to account ...
Adam Trahan, Kaleigh B. Laird
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Research has shown that attribution theory and racial attitudes are among the most consistent attitudinal predictors of capital punishment opinion. This study explores the overlap of these two constructs, racial attribution, and its ability to account ...
Adam Trahan, Kaleigh B. Laird
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Does capital punishment deter white‐collar crimes?
World Economics, 2018This paper examines whether capital punishment, either directly or via a spillover effect, has a deterrent effect on white collar crimes. Using data on nearly 150 nations and various dimensions of capital punishment, including capital punishment for non ...
R. Goel, Ummad Mazhar
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Crime & Delinquency, 1969
In simplest terms, the thesis of this paper is that the death penalty is torture, that it serves no other purpose than revenge, that revenge is an unconstitutional purpose, and that torture is an unconstitutional act. The supporting narrative relies upon historical and present facts and upon law. It offers a prediction that our courts will strike down
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In simplest terms, the thesis of this paper is that the death penalty is torture, that it serves no other purpose than revenge, that revenge is an unconstitutional purpose, and that torture is an unconstitutional act. The supporting narrative relies upon historical and present facts and upon law. It offers a prediction that our courts will strike down
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2018
This chapter examines Supreme Court cases that were filed in Texas over the issue of capital punishment. When it comes to executions, Texas leads the nation by a wide margin. Between 1997 and 2000, Texas executed 132 people—significantly more than any other state since executions resumed after 1976.
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This chapter examines Supreme Court cases that were filed in Texas over the issue of capital punishment. When it comes to executions, Texas leads the nation by a wide margin. Between 1997 and 2000, Texas executed 132 people—significantly more than any other state since executions resumed after 1976.
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