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
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Zajac, Gary
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作者:
Ulmer, Jeffery T.;Kramer, John H.;Zajac, Gary
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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