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Capital Punishment

Known as: Penalty, Death, Death Penalties, Punishments, Capital 
The use of the death penalty for certain crimes.
National Institutes of Health

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Gas Chamber ExecutionHanging, JudicialJudicial ElectrocutionLethal Injection
legislation & jurisprudence

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type of penalty

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Spatial Interdependence of Local Public Expenditures: Selected Evidence from the Czech Republic
Local expenditures in neighbouring municipalities can be spatially interdependent due to spillovers, cooperation effects… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Forgotten Racial Equality: Implicit Bias, Decision-Making and Misremembering
This Article argues that judges and jurors unknowingly propagate racism through their legal decisions because they misremember… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Psychoticism in the effect of prolonged exposure to gratuitous media violence on the acceptance of violence as a preferred means of conflict resolution
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Protection of low-density lipoprotein from oxidation by 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethanol
Review
1994
Review
1994
“Modern” death qualification
We report on the results of a comprehensive statewide survey of death penalty attitudes in which respondents were categorized in… 
1994
1994
Comprehending life and death matters
Modern capital jurisprudence places special significance on judicial instructions to guide the discretion of the capital jury in… 
Review
1991
Review
1991
Capital punishment in America
Paternoster reviews the history of execution in the US, the laws concerning capital punishment, and the arguments for and against… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
The development of moral judgments concerning capital punishment.
Data from a 20-year longitudinal study of the development of moral judgment in American males indicate that the most mature… 
Review
1975
Review
1975
Murder and capital punishment: some further evidence.
The literature relating homicide and capital punishment is reviewed briefly. Despite the "presumed conclusiveness" of the… 
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
A Comparison of the Work of Thorsten Sellin and Isaac Ehrlich on the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment
During the last 20 years, a substantial number of empirical studies -most prominent among them the work of criminologist Thorsten… 
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