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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Death Penalty"”.
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The McDonaldized Death Penalty: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and American Capital Punishment
… helped to legitimate and thus sustain the modern death penalty. However, no work attempts to understand capital punishment or its persistence in America in regards to neoliberalism. To address this void in understanding, I conceptualize Ritzer's four tenets of McDonaldization (predictability, …
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Misguided Instructions: Do Jurors Accurately Understand the Law in Death Penalty Trials?
<p>The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees individuals’ right to trial by an impartial jury. However, empirical research indicates that the jury system is flawed, especially regarding judicial sentencing instructions. More specifically, jurors frequently misunderstand or …
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Anatomy of the impact of the death penalty on individual human rights
The death penalty or 'permanent removal of an individual from society by the authorities, or to put it even more bluntly, the killing of an individual by the state authoritities has been in existence and has bedevilled legal systems all over the world from time immemorial. Sadly, in many countries, …
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The application of the Death penalty law in Zambia: What is the justification
… legislation that allows the State to invoke a death sentence for specific offences. The death penalty Law is applicable in the Zambian criminal justice system.This dissertation was seized with the task of ascertaining whether or not the application of death penalty Law has any justification. …
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Arguing for the Death Penalty: Making the Retentionist Case in Britain, 1945-1979
There is a small body of historiography that analyses the abolition of capital punishment in Britain. There has been no detailed study of those who opposed abolition and no history of the entire post-war abolition process from the Criminal Justice Act 1948 to permanent abolition in 1969. This …
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Religious Fundamentalism and Death Penalty Attitudes: Towards a New Operationalization of the Constructs
<p>The death penalty has remained a highly debated topic in the United States. Due to the link between public support for the death penalty and its utilization as a sanction, it is important to continue investigating the factors related to differences in death penalty support. Religion has a …
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Drugs and drug policies in Oman with special reference to the death penalty
… The most striking feature of the new law is a 'death penalty. The death penalty would be applied to those charged with drug trafficking and smuggling, as laid down in article No 43.Therefore, the question is can the death penalty deter criminals from committing trafficking and smuggling in …
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A Re-Analysis of the Role of Race in the Federal Death Penalty System
The death penalty, as the ultimate sanction, has always served as a source of great debate and remains one of the most controversial punishments meted out by the criminal justice system. Due to concerns of its administration and application, a moratorium on the death penalty was declared by the …
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Examination of the Death Penalty: Public Opinion of a Northeast Tennessee University Student Sample.
<p>How society views the use of the death penalty as a means of punishment greatly affects the decisions of lawmakers, politicians who use it as a platform for election, and the criminals who commit the crime of murder. This study used 40 different vignettes involving real-life murder scenarios in …
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Revulsion and Palatability: The Staying Power of Death Penalty Rituals - Last Meals and Beyond
… rituals are central to this history. The death penalty regime has evolved from a primarily private-based justice system to the state-carceral capital punishment system we have today. This thesis uses three historical eras as the framework for analyzing methods of executions and the rituals …
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Punishment and social structure: reactionary Bourbonism and the social origins of Progressive Era death penalty reinstatment
… Era and early 20th century, to reinstate the death penalty during this same period. Based on analysis of original archival data, this new study emphasizes the importance of a single variable present in the previous study (anti-Bolshevism) previously underrepresented in the empirical data sets …
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Judicial politics in the Privy Council: a legal analysis of its impact on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean
… decision making on the constitutionality of the death penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean influenced by judicial politics. This issue is extant to the Commonwealth Caribbean society and therefore a legal analysis of it is necessary to generate new insights into the judicial politics of the …
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Public policy considerations arising from the exchange of information about South African taxpayers with countries that sanction the use of death penalty, with a focus on China
… how South Africa’s public policy towards the death penalty is protected amidst increased taxpayer information transparency. The People’s Republic of China (China) may, under article 22(4) of the Joint Council of Europe/OECD Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters (2010) …
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Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes
… produces a multivariate, multi-stage model of death penalty attitudes. Demographic factors such as race, age, gender, and education level are included in the initial stage of the model. Attitudinal variables such as party identification, ideology, and religiosity are added, one-by-one, in the …
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Sounding the last mile: Music and capital punishment in the United States since 1976
… Supreme Court reaffirmed the legality of the death penalty in 1976, capital punishment has drastically waxed and waned in both implementation and popularity throughout much of the country. While studying opinion polls, quantitative data, and legislation can help make sense of this phenomenon, …
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Divinely ordained death? Exploring religious determinants of support for capital punishment, abortion, and euthanasia
… attitudes toward three cases of unnatural death: capital punishment, abortion, and euthanasia. One considerable factor which shapes individuals’ attitudes toward human intervention in death is religion. Another salient determinant is the effect of racial differences. This dissertation …
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