The Race of Defendants and Victims in Pennsylvania Death Penalty Decisions: 2000–2010

The Race of Defendants and Victims in Pennsylvania Death Penalty Decisions: 2000–2010
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宾夕法尼亚州死刑判决中被告和受害者的种族:2000 年至 2010 年

DOI:
10.1080/07418825.2019.1679865
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发表时间:
2020
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影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Zajac, Gary
Zajac, Gary
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法学1区
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作者:
Ulmer, Jeffery T.;Kramer, John H.;Zajac, Gary

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本研究使用倾向得分加权法考察了2000-2010年宾夕法尼亚州的三个关键死刑判决,重点关注被告和受害者种族的作用:检察官寻求死刑的决定,检察官撤回死亡申请的决定,以及判处被告死刑的决定。我们收集了宾夕法尼亚州18个县880起一级谋杀罪定罪的数据,涵盖了该州87%的一级谋杀罪。我们没有发现黑人被告,或杀害白人受害者的黑人被告更有可能被寻求或判处死刑。相反,我们发现那些杀害白人受害者的人,无论被告的种族如何,都更有可能被判处死刑。我们进一步发现,黑人被告,以及杀害黑人受害者的黑人,更有可能被检察官撤回死亡申请。最后,死刑的种族差异模式因案件被起诉和判刑的国家而异。
This study uses propensity score weighting to examine three key death penalty decisions in Pennsylvania from 2000–2010, focusing on the role of defendant and victim race: prosecutors’ decisions to seek the death penalty, prosecutors’ decisions to retract death filings, and decisions to sentence defendants to the death penalty. We collected data on 880 first degree murder convictions in 18 Pennsylvania counties, encompassing 87% of the state’s first-degree murder convictions. We do not find that black defendants, or black defendants who kill white victims specifically, are more likely to have the death penalty sought or imposed. Instead, we find that those who kill white victims, regardless of defendant race, are more likely to receive the death penalty. We further found that black defendants, and blacks who killed black victims, were more likely to have a death filing retracted by prosecutors. Finally, patterns of death penalty race disparity varied greatly depending on the county in which a case was prosecuted and sentenced.
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