Poverty and the Death Penalty

Johnson, Jeffery L.; Johnson, Colleen F.

doi:10.1080/00213624.2001.11506386

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“…The demographic correlates of support and opposition to capital punishment are well established. Supporters of capital punishment are disproportionately White (Bobo & Johnson, 2004; J. K. Cochran & Chamlin, 2006; J. L. Johnson & Johnson, 2001), male (J. K. Cochran & Sanders, 2009;Robbers, 2006;Stack, 2000), Protestant (Grasmick et al, 1993), politically conservative (Longmire, 1996;Young, 1991), and married (Fox et al, 1990). These findings have been consistently observed in nearly every modern study of capital punishment opinion.…”

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Support for the Death Penalty Reinstatement as a Protest Attitude: The Role of Political Trust

Peshkopia

Trahan

2020

International Criminal Justice Review

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We argue that support for the reinstatement of capital punishment might reflect protest against an untrustworthy judicial system, framing this as a protest attitude. We test our argument with data from a probability sample of 2,366 respondents in Albania collected in 2015 via a cell phone random digit dialing technique. We found that respondents’ support for the reinstatement of the death penalty is associated with lack of trust in the country’s judiciary but not necessarily respondents prioritizing the war on crime. Also, we found that skepticism toward European Union (EU) membership conditionality as a drive for the country’s democratization is a good predictor of support for the reinstatement of the death penalty, but there is no evidence that respondents related their support for the country’s EU membership with support for capital punishment.

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“…Supporters of capital punishment are disproportionately White (Bobo & Johnson, 2004; J. K. Cochran & Chamlin, 2006; J. L. Johnson & Johnson, 2001), male (J.…”

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Support for the Death Penalty Reinstatement as a Protest Attitude: The Role of Political Trust

Peshkopia

Trahan

2020

International Criminal Justice Review

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“…The ability to retain private counsel is in large part contingent upon the defendant's financial resources. Individuals of lower socioeconomic statuses are more likely to be represented by court-appointed rather than privately retained counsel (Johnson and Johnson, 2001).…”

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Mental health mitigating evidence and judicial outcomes for federal capital defendants

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Dahlsgaard

2015

International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice

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“…He will employ an argumentative strategy that I have called "the argument from contingent reality." 31 He will concede the per se constitutionality of capital punishment, but will then counter that contingent facts about its current application render it unconstitutional. Blackmun concentrates on the first of four relevant facts, but all four together make an even more persuasive case.…”

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Evidence, Explanation, and the Pursuit of Truth in Literature and Law

Johnson

2015

Law, Culture & the Humanities

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My focus is evidence. I understand this concept to be the marshalling of facts (data, etc.) in support of some position. This might be a district attorney presenting evidence to a jury that O. J. is guilty, or a literary critic arguing that Hamlet suffered from an Oedipus complex. But what is the logical connection between the relevant facts and the position they are being used to defend? How are we to distinguish successful cases of the marshalling of evidence -good arguments -from unsuccessful cases -weak arguments? I defend what I take to be a very commonsensical and pedagogically useful theory of [good] evidence. I argue that this view, inference to the best explanation, captures most, if not all, appeals to evidence in everyday contexts, as well as quite specialized domains like science, detective reasoning, and criminal and civil evidence. It also nicely encapsulates the sort of evidence that jurists and critics marshal in defense of particular readings of legal and literary texts. Appeals to evidence in the complicated worlds of teenage romance, detective fiction, criminal law, literary interpretation, and constitutional law all nicely fit the structure and evaluative methodology of inference to the best explanation. But only the diagnoses of lipstick stains, murder victims and bloody gloves can be held to the standards of correspondence and metaphysical realism. Literary and constitutional texts can be explained, and can be better or worse explained, but the truth or falsity of these interpretations is firmly in the realm of the coherence theory.

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Poverty and the Death Penalty

Cited by 7 publications

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Support for the Death Penalty Reinstatement as a Protest Attitude: The Role of Political Trust

Support for the Death Penalty Reinstatement as a Protest Attitude: The Role of Political Trust

Mental health mitigating evidence and judicial outcomes for federal capital defendants

Evidence, Explanation, and the Pursuit of Truth in Literature and Law

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