Entries tagged with “Craig Haney”
May 01, 2025
DPI’s Podcast 12:01 The Death Penalty in Context: Experts Discuss the Legacy of Roper v. Simmons
In this month’s podcast episode of *12:01: The Death Penalty* *in Context*, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Professors Craig Haney and Frank Baumgartner, and DPI’s Staff Attorney Leah Roemer about the legacy of the US Supreme Court’s decision in *Roper v. Simmons* and the legal and scientific landscape surrounding the use of the death penalty for young adults ages 18 – 20. Professors Baumgartner and Haney, along with fellow researcher Karen Steele,…
May 01, 2025
Experts Discuss the Legacy of Roper v. Simmons
In this month’s podcast episode of *12:01: The Death Penalty* *in Context*, DPI’s Managing Director Anne Holsinger speaks with Professors Craig Haney and Frank Baumgartner, and DPI’s Staff Attorney Leah Roemer about the legacy of the US Supreme Court’s decision in *Roper v. Simmons* and the legal and scientific landscape surrounding the use of the death penalty for young adults ages 18 – 20. Professors Baumgartner and Haney, along with fellow researcher Karen Steele,…
Issues
Feb 10, 2023
STUDIES: Raising the Age of Those Eligible for the Death Penalty Would Likely Reduce Racial Disparities
Professor Craig Haney (pictured) of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Karen Steele, a criminal defense attorney in Oregon, examined age and race data from nearly 9,000 death sentences imposed in the U.S. from 1972 to 2021. They found that the racial disparities that plague the death penalty were more pronounced in cases involving juvenile and late adolescent defendants. Building on…
Issues
Aug 22, 2016
New Poll Finds “Strong Majority” of Floridians Prefer Life Without Parole Over Death Penalty
A recent poll by researcher Craig Haney, a Professor of Psychology at the University of California — Santa Cruz, has found that a“strong majority” of Florida respondents prefer life without parole to the death penalty for people convicted of murder, even as many harbor continuing misconceptions about capital punishment that would predispose them to support the…