Entries tagged with “Craig Haney”
Policy Issues
Sentencing Alternatives
,Public Opinion
,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 death…
Policy Issues
Juveniles
,Race
,Sentencing Data
,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 the findings of a…