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A close look at death in the First State

By Douglas A. Berman

A new article now up here at SSRN, which looks closely at one state's death penalty, looks like useful weekend reading.  The article is titled "The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study," and here is the abstract:This article reports the findings of the first phase of a three phase empirical study of the death penalty in Delaware.  In phase 1, we examined only cases in which the defendant was sentenced to death. While our findings are preliminary, there appear to be, as numerous other studies have found in other jurisdictions, race of victim effects.  Seventy percent of the death sentences were imposed in white victim cases, even though the majority of the murder victims are black. Additionally, Delaware has one of the highest death sentencing rates in the country...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 16, 2008 (boomark / email).