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Death Penalty
Schaefer, K., J. Hennessy, & J.G. Ponterotto. (2000). Race as a variable in imposing 40). Whites made up the majority of death-row inmates as well, a finding that the researchers deemed to be surprising (Schaefer, Hennessey, & Ponterotto, 2000, p. 41).
and carrying out the death penalty in the U.S. Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, violent crime: The realities and the myths. The Haworth Press, 35-45.
The research question was: given the extent to which the death penalty has been arbitrarily imposed, to what extent are there unbalanced racial demographics in death penalty sentencing?
The hypothesis was that race is a factor in terms of how death penalty sentencing is allocated.
Research was accumulated through the analysis of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports from 1976 to 1995. This source provided information about the race of perpetrators. DOJ capital offender data files were also analyzed for the demographic data for each of the 5,580 of the prisoners condemned to death versus those of offenders from states without death penalties (Schaefer, Hennessey, & Ponterotto, 2000, p. 39).
Q4. The research yielded the finding that while Blacks and Hispanics made up the majority of the population of incarcerated individuals for homicides and the populations of these racial groups in
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The researchers had expected that there would be a larger percentage of African-Americans on death row, particularly given the history of racial discrimination in sentencing in the United States and the higher population of incarcerated African-Americans. However, they did note that there is a tendency for jurors to penalize crimes against whites more stringently than crimes against African-Americans and the perpetrators of homicides are statistically more likely to be the same race as their victims than the opposite race. This could possibly explain the results -- and also underlines that there is still bias in the manner in which punishments are allocated regarding the death penalty.
Lambert, E., S. Jiang, O. Elechi, M. Khondaker, & D. Baker. (2014). A preliminary study of gender differences in death penalty views of college students from Bangladesh, China,
Nigeria, and the United States. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 12:44-68.
Q1. A notable gender gap exists in the U.S. between men and women: men are far more…
References
Schaefer, K., J. Hennessy, & J.G. Ponterotto. (2000). Race as a variable in imposing
and carrying out the death penalty in the U.S. Race, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, Violent Crime: The Realities and the Myths. The Haworth Press, 35-45.
Lambert, E., S. Jiang, O. Elechi, M. Khondaker, & D. Baker. (2014). A preliminary study of gender differences in death penalty views of college students from Bangladesh, China,
Nigeria, and the United States. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 12:44-68.
Death Penalty as Retribution The Retributive Nature of the Death Penalty The peaceful fabric of society is torn whenever a crime is committed. In the case of murder, the suffering of the victim's loved ones can be unbearable and last for a lifetime. The destructive ripple effect of these tragedies cannot be compensated for in any way, not even by the capture, conviction, and execution of the killer. However, many states still
Death Penalty Is Fair The Death Penalty Is a Fair Punishment for Murder Arguements have been raised concerning death penalty for a long time now. A lot of people consider death penalty as an immoral, or an unreasonable punishment. (Messerli, 2007) Despite the fact that the death sentences were a constant element of society in the past, which actually initiated from lynching and ended in the modern capital punishment and is still
The death penalty may exact a high cost but so does remaining behind bars for life imprisonment (Haag 1986). But righting wrongs in a society has a higher option than entailing the costs. Penalties are also acts of social retribution to restrain personal or private vengeance aimed at vindicating the law and social order, which has been injured or violated by a crime. Proponents or advocates of the death penalty
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However, sociologists argue that the retributive justice theory suffers due to the lack of appreciation of circumstantial causes involved in the commission of crime. By counting 'free will' as the only factor involved in a crime the deontological thinking lacks in the comprehensive analysis of criminal behavior. For instance the disproportionate number of crimes by the economically disadvantaged African-Americans when compared to Caucasians is a clear instance for external
It would seem that many criminals would find this more amusing than frightening. They do not take their chances of being caught and subjected to capital punishment seriously enough to be frightened by the penalty like many assume they will be (van den Haag, 2001). According to some who believe in God and feel that capital punishment is acceptable under the scriptures, there is one main point, which is that