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Death Row Days :

Death Row Days :. Rebekah Kopsky University of North Texas McNair Scholars Program, Honors College Department of Political Science College of Arts and Sciences Kimi Lynn King, J.D./ Ph.D. Factors Affecting the Rate of Execution in the State of Texas. Capital Punishment in the U.S.

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Death Row Days :

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  1. Death Row Days: Rebekah Kopsky University of North Texas McNair Scholars Program, Honors College Department of Political Science College of Arts and Sciences Kimi Lynn King, J.D./ Ph.D. Factors Affecting the Rate of Execution in the State of Texas

  2. Capital Punishment in the U.S. Furman v. Georgia (1972) • 8th Amendment Cruel and Unusual punishment • On its face • As applied Gregg v. Georgia (1976) • New state laws • Bifurcated system McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) • Statistical evidence of widespread discrimination Capital Statutes • 35 and U.S. government and U.S. military • 15 and District of Columbia

  3. Capital Punishment in Texas • Current population 337 • Life without parole • Roper v. Simmons (2005) • Law of parties • Clemencies

  4. Prior Research • Bowers (1983) • Society’s worst offenders • Prosecutorial bias • White-victim effect • Ekland-Olson (1988) • Texas bifurcated system • Paternoster (1984), Radelet (1981) • Racial bias from indictment to sentence Source: www.guardian.co.uk

  5. Hypotheses H1: White offenders whose victims were white will spend more days on death row than minority offenders, regardless of the race of their victims. H2: Offenders with multiple victims will spend fewer days on death row than offenders with a single victim. H3: Offenders whose victims were strangers will spend more days on death row than offenders who knew their victims.

  6. Summary Statistics on Racial Relationship

  7. Results on Racial Relationship

  8. Summary Statistics on Death Eligibility

  9. Results on Death Eligibility

  10. Summary Statistics on Nature of Relationship

  11. Results on Nature of Relationship

  12. Acknowledgements • McNair Program • Diana Elrod, Ph.D. • Twila Farrar, M.S. Candidate • Honors College • Gloria Cox, Ph.D. • Susan Eve, Ph.D. • Kimi Lynn King, J.D./Ph.D. • Department of Political Science • College of Arts and Sciences

  13. References • Bowers, W.J. (1983). The Pervasiveness of Arbitrariness and Discrimination Under Post-"Furman" Capital Statutes. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 74(3): 1067-1100. • Ekland-Olson, S. (1988). Structured Discretion, Racial Bias, and the Death Penalty: The First Decade After Furman in Texas. Social Science Quarterly (University of Texas Press), 69(4): 853-873. • Paternoster, R. (1984). Prosecutorial Discretion in Requesting the Death Penalty: A Case of Victim-Based Racial Discrimination. Law & Society Review, 18(3): 437-478. • Radelet, M. L. (1981). Racial Characteristics and the Imposition of the Death Penalty. American Sociological Review 46(6): 918-927. • Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. Title 1. Art. 37. 071. Code of Criminal Procedure. Chapter 37, The Verdict. • http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/penalty/813783.html • http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm

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