The Death Penalty: Should the Judge or the Jury Decide Who Dies?
The Death Penalty: Should the Judge or the Jury Decide Who Dies?
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死刑：应该由法官还是陪审团决定谁死？
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2014
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M. Wells
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V. Hans;John H. Blume;T. Eisenberg;A. Hritz;Sheri Lynn Johnson;C. Royer;M. Wells
本文通过对1977年至2007年特拉华州所有死刑量刑阶段听证会审判数据库的分析，探讨了法官与陪审团决策的影响。在三十年的研究中，特拉华州将死刑判决的责任从陪审团转移到了法官身上。目前，特拉华州是少数几个在死刑审判中赋予法官最终决定权的州之一。控制了一些法律相关的和其他预测变量，我们发现，法官量刑的转变显着增加了死刑判决的数量。法定加重因素、陌生人杀人案和受害者的性别也增加了死刑判决的可能性，杀人案发生的县也是如此。我们反映了这些结果的影响，在死刑案件中的法官量刑的合宪性辩论。
This article addresses the effect of judge versus jury decision making through analysis of a database of all capital sentencing phase hearing trials in the state of Delaware from 1977-2007. Over the three decades of the study, Delaware shifted responsibility for death penalty sentencing from the jury to the judge. Currently, Delaware is one of the handful of states that gives the judge the final decision making authority in capital trials. Controlling for a number of legally-relevant and other predictor variables, we find that the shift to judge sentencing significantly increased the number of death sentences. Statutory aggravating factors, stranger homicides, and the victim’s gender also increased the likelihood of a death sentence, as did the county of the homicide. We reflect on the implications of these results for debates about the constitutionality of judge sentencing in capital cases.