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A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty Frank R. Baumgartner A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty Frank R. Baumgartner Individual Chapters drafted by students in POLI 490, Fall 2015 Draft chapters as of November 15, 2015 Chapter 1. Background Chapter 2. Who gets executed? Chapter 3. Who were the victims? Chapter 4. What Notorious Murderers Did Not Get the Death Penalty? Chapter 5. What crimes are death-eligible? Chapter 6. How long does it take? Chapter 7. Which jurisdictions execute and which ones don’t? Chapter 8. How often are death sentences overturned? Chapter 9. How often are people exonerated from death row? Chapter 10. How are the executions carried out? Chapter 11. How often are scheduled executions later cancelled? Chapter 12. How many inmates just give up? Chapter 13. Mental Health Chapter 14. How deep is public support of the death penalty? Chapter 15. Why does the death penalty cost so much? Chapter 16. Is the death penalty dying? Chapter 17. Is the modern death penalty very different from its historical use? References Supplemental Materials for Web Site Data for all figures, with do-files Additional details on data, such as state-by-state breakdowns if applicable Films, books, documentaries, other resources Draft, Nov 15, 2015 SC decisions and articles from JSTOR: One-stop shopping to do research following up on our book Etc Notes to students: This is a fantastic first draft, but only a first draft. There is a lot of work to go before the semester is over, so we can move this to the next level of professionalism before the semester is over. After the semester, there will be still more work. At that point the goal is to move the book to a publishable level, which means professional level citations, literature review, etc. Some of you may want to be involved in that. But everyone needs to pull weight to get the book to as good a place as we can possibly get it by the end of the semester. Here are some things to do for sure: Formatting and details. Details matter in writing a book. It has to look right, first of all. You need to review the template I sent out and scrupulously follow the formatting. Use the Word “outline” view to see your entire chapter. Use the “styles” to make section headers, normal text, tables, chapter titles, and all the rest. This is a pain when we think of a 300 page document and the professor is supposed to fix all the little formatting issues! So give me a break and follow the template. Re-organizing and re-weighting. Now that you can see what else is there, there will be places where we can all see that: a) something needs to be moved; b) there is too much on one topic and maybe not enough on another; c) we need to make references to other chapters. Foreshadow a later chapter when you write about something that will be covered in more detail later (e.g. “as we show in greater detail in Chapter x.”). Refer back to things covered in previous chapter (“as we saw in Chapter y, such and so.”). Please put your names after the chapter title for each chapter. List everyone who deserves credit. If someone helped at first but someone else did more, put an asterisk by the name of the ones who did more work. Charts are referred to as Figure 2.1, Figure 2.2, etc., Tables are Table 2.1, 2.2, etc. See this example for how to give a title. Table [or Figure] 3.1. Homicide Victims by Gender. [text of the table goes here] Source: xxx. Note: xxx. The point in a table or figure is that the Title to it should explain what it is, and that the notes at the bottom, just below the table, should give more explanation such as sources or how to read the table if it is complicated. 2 Draft, Nov 15, 2015 1 The US Death Penalty Kaneesha Johnson The 1960s marked the beginning of challenges brought against the constitutionality of capital punishment in the United States. Previously, the fifth, eighth, and fourteenth amendments have been interpreted as the death penalty being a constitutional punishment. In Trop v Dulles (1958) the Supreme Court questioned the extent to which the state can punish a person based on his or her crimes. The Court held that stripping someone of his or her citizenship was a punishment that outweighed the crime of desertion, and was so was considered “cruel and unusual”. Chief Justice Earl Warren, in his majority opinion, stated, “The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society” (Trop v. Dulles (1958) 356 U.S. 86). It was not long before these themes emerged in the debate of the death penalty. In the late 1960s the court began to modify the nature in which the death penalty was administered. The first of the two cases that arose surrounding the procedural constitutionality of the death penalty was U.S. v. Jackson (390 U.S. 570), where the Supreme Court heard the arguments for the provision of the death penalty from a federal kidnapping statute only from the recommendation of a jury. The court found this unconstitutional due to encouragement of the defendants to waive their right to a jury trial to ensure that they would not receive a death sentence1. 1 http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/about/history/history-5.htm 3 Draft, Nov 15, 2015 The second case was Witherspoon v. Illinois (391 U.S. 510), which concerned an Illinois statute that provides grounds for dismissal for any juror with “conscientious scruples” against capital punishment. The Court held that a jurors “conscientious scruples” against capital punishment was in violation of the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of an “impartial jury” and the Fourteenth Amendments guarantee of due process. Furman v. Georgia (1972) The issue of the arbitrary and capricious use of the death penalty was presented to the court four years later in the landmark decision of Furman v. Georgia (1972 408 U.S. 238). Furman was burglarizing a home when a family member discovered him. In an attempt to flee, Furman tripped and fell, during which the gun he was carrying discarded and killed a resident of the home. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. (describe why he was appealing) The court held, in a 5-4 decision in favor of Furman, that the Georgia death penalty statute, which gave jury’s complete discretion of imposing the death penalty, was “cruel and unusual” and therefore in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The decisions put forth by Supreme Court Justices in Furman are mostly directed to the procedural elements of capital punishment. The decision in Furman ruled that all existing forms of the death penalty were unconstitutional, thus placing a temporary hold on all death sentences across the United States. The Furman decision also established safeguards for states to follow in order to have a death penalty. Following this decision, 35 states (graph for the states?) changed the procedures of capital punishment to be in line with those safeguards, some of who imposed mandatory death sentences for eligible crimes (see Woodson v. North Carolina and Roberts v. Louisiana). Table 4 Draft, Nov 15, 2015 1.3 shows the year in which each state reinstated the death penalty following the Furman decision. In over two hundred pages of concurrence and dissents, the Justices highlighted their views on the controversial subject. The major themes in the opinions given by the justices centered around the unconstitutionality of the death penalty due to capriciousness, inhuman nature, arbitrariness, lack of deterrence, the rejection of retribution by American society, and the excessive costs of capital punishment. Only Justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice William Brennan believed that the death penalty should be unconstitutional in all instances, which is further highlighted in the later decision of Gregg v. Georgia (1976). The main themes that the justices highlighted in their concerns of the constitutionality of the death penalty fall under five main themes; capriciousness, the inhumane nature, lack of deterrence, the question of retribution, and the biased nature of sentencing. Capriciousness/Arbitrary Perhaps the most important issues highlighted in Furman is the capricious and arbitrary nature in which the death penalty was being imposed. All five Justices voting in support of Furman found the death penalty to be capricious in its current form. Justice Douglass, in his concurrence, highlighted that the death penalty as unusual because it “discriminates against him by reason of his race, religion, wealth, social position, [and] class, [and] if it imposed under a procedure that gives room for the play of such prejudices” (Furman v. Georgia, 242). The death penalty is arbitrary for many reasons. One reason highlighted by Justice Brennan is its application not determined by the extremity of the offence, but thee is a strong probability that it is inflicted arbitrarily (Furman v. Georgia 295, 305) 5 Draft, Nov 15, 2015 Inhumane Nature Another major concern in the Furman majority opinion was the inhumane nature in which the death penalty was imposed. In his opinion, Brennan established a four-pronged test for whether or not a case is constitutional (what is this test?). The principles are to determine whether or not a punishment, “comports with human dignity” (305). Further, Justice Brennan highlighted that “if a punishment is unusually severe, if there is a strong probability that it is inflicted arbitrarily, if it is substantially rejected by contemporary society, and if there is no reason to believe that it serves any penal purpose more effectively than some less severe punishment, then the continued infliction of that punishment violates the command of the Clause that the State may not inflict inhuman and uncivilized punishments upon those convicted of crimes” (282) No deterrence The three Justices, who voiced opinions against the deterrent effect of capital punishment, including White, Marshall, and Brennan, found that there “is no reason to believe the assumption that the current way the death penalty is administered is a superior or more effective deterrent to long-term imprisonment” (Furman v.
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