All Articles tagged capital murder

• Justice Commentaries
  July 17, 2018 EDT
  SNAKE OIL WITH A BITE: THE LETHAL VENEER OF SCIENCE AND TEXAS’S DEATH PENALTY
  James R. Acker

  This article examines the several stages of Texas capital prosecutions in which unreliable expert and scientific opinions have contributed to the prosecution and execution of persons accused of committing murder.

• General
  January 01, 2018 EDT
  LETHAL REJECTION: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ASTONISHING PLUNGE IN DEATH SENTENCES IN THE UNITED STATES FROM THEIR POST-FURMAN PEAK
  David McCordTalia Roitberg Harmon

  This article examines empirical analysis conducted over a two-decade period to determine what significant contributing factors led to the decline of death sentences in the post-Furman era.