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Are Forensic Experts Already Biased before Adversarial Legal Parties Hire Them? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
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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Public Opinion and the Abolition or Retention of the Death Penalty Why is the United States Different? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
What explains the difference between the United States and the many other countries that have abolished capital punishment? Because the United States and many other nations that have abolished the death penalty are democracies, there seems to be an ...
Beale, Sara Sun
core   +3 more sources

A Case Study of Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Capital Punishment: Diversity, Rationale, and Interaction

open access: yesModern China, 2019
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Capital punishment: a theoretical and cooperative analysis

open access: yesPrzegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2016
Among all the different types of penalties that exist in the various juridical systems around the world, capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is one of the most controversial ones.
Tainá Corrêa Barbosa Ramos
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Understanding Death Penalty Support and Opposition Among Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Students

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2016
Although a sizable number of studies have gathered information from college students regarding their varying degrees of support for capital punishment, few have explored the underlying rationales behind these students’ death penalty support or opposition.
Raj Sethuraju   +2 more
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A Good Murder [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
People 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 ...
Bienen, Leigh B.
core   +2 more sources

ZAGADNIENIE KARY ŚMIERCI W STANACh ZJEDNOCZONYCH AMERYKI

open access: yesZeszyty Prawnicze, 2016
THE ISSUE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Summary This article describes the issue of capital punishment in the United States, including the history of the death penalty as administered in the USA and the main court rulings on this matter ...
Wojciech Kwiatkowski
doaj   +1 more source

Reconsidering the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Ghana

open access: yesBratislava Law Review, 2022
The human rights argument for the abolishment of the death penalty has been firmly established in modern times in both practical terms and in the academic circles.
Prince Obiri-Korang
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Death Penalty and Right to Life

open access: yesМосковский журнал международного права, 2009
The article dwells on the contemporary situation in respect of the judicial practice related to the application of the capital punishment both in international and national law. Today the European Convention for the Human Rights is the only international
I. S. Semyonov
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Firm-Specific Environmental Punishment on Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence From China

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2023
Even though previous studies have investigated the effect of environmental regulation policy on stock price crash risk, little is known about how the firm-specific environmental punishment would impact stock price crash risks.
Minghui Li, Chaohai Shen, Mengyao Wen
doaj   +1 more source

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