Arbitrariness
,Lethal Injection
,Jul 18, 2016
The execution of John Conner on July 15 ended a two-month period without executions in the United States, the longest such period in the country since 2007 – 2008. A range of s…
Public Opinion
,Federal Death Penalty
,Aug 04, 2021
As President Biden considers his administration’s policy on the federal death penalty, his expressed opposition to the punishment may be buoyed by a new study that has found that “Americans support capital punishment less than they have at any tim…
Arbitrariness
,Costs
,Deterrence
,Innocence
,Mental Illness
,Race
,Nov 27, 2017
In their new book, Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty, a team of researchers led by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill…
Costs
,Sentencing Data
,Jan 27, 2010
In an opinion piece in the News & Observer, Professor Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, recently wrote that the declining use and high costs of the death penalty in the state put into …
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Public Opinion
,Sep 29, 2021
In the September 2021 episode of Discussions With DPIC, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill political scientist Frank Baumgartner (pictured), one of the nation’s leading academic authorities on the d…
Race
,Clemency
,Oct 04, 2022
A study of more than 400 death-eligible murder cases in St. Louis County, Missouri over a 27-year period has found significant racial disparities in the county’s administration of the death penalty based upon the race of the victi…
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Jan 13, 2022
Kentucky’s death penalty is racially discriminatory, geographically arbitrary, and riddled with systemic flaws, a new study of the commonwealth’s use of capital punishment has found. The study,
Juveniles
,Race
,Sentencing Data
,Aug 29, 2022
Racial disparities in U.S. death sentences imposed on late adolescent offenders have grown substantially since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of capital punishment against juvenile offenders in 2005, according to a new report by
Race
,Sentencing Data
,Mar 01, 2023
Researchers based at the University of North Carolina found a strong statistical relationship between the level of racial resentment in a state and the number of death sentences handed down on Black people. In particular, racial resentment was a s…
Mental Illness
,Apr 03, 2017
A new study of the case records of the men and women executed in the United States between 2000 and 2015 has found that 21st-century executions disproportionately involve prisoners diagnosed with mental illness and who have experienced traumatic c…
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Jan 28, 2015
According to a new study principally authored by Prof. Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina, the death penalty is far more likely to be used if the underlying murder victim was white rather than black. The study examined every U.S…
Arbitrariness
,Sentencing Data
,Mar 08, 2010
Most of those originally condemned to death in North Carolina eventually received lesser sentences when their cases were concluded, according to Professor Frank Baumgartner, a researcher at the Un…
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Apr 28, 2016
More than 80% of the 241 death sentences imposed in Louisiana since 1976 have been reversed on appeal, and one death row prisoner has been exonerated for every three executions in the state, according to a new study by University …
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Jun 10, 2022
Louisiana’s death penalty is disproportionately imposed in cases involving white female victims, especially if the defendant in the case is a Black man, a new study by three leading death-penalty researchers has confirmed. Louisiana prosecutors we…
Race
,Aug 31, 2015
A new study by Professor Frank Baumgartner of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Tim Lyman, a Documentation Specialist in New Orleans, reports stark disparities in Louisiana death sentences and executions dependin…
Arbitrariness
,Mar 18, 2015
A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that the most likely outcome for a capital case once a death sentence has been imposed is that the defendant’s conviction or sentence will be reversed on appeal.…
Arbitrariness
,Executions Overview
,Jan 29, 2016
“Ohio’s death penalty is plagued by vast inequities” grounded in race, gender, and geography, according to a new University of North Carolina study. UNC-Chapel Hill political science professor Frank Baumgartner examined the 53 executions Ohio has …
Juveniles
,Race
,Sentencing Data
,Feb 10, 2023
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 …
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Jan 14, 2016
Florida executions are plagued by stark racial, gender, and geographic disparities, according to a new University of North Carolina study, with executions 6.5 times more likely for murders of white female victims than for murders …
Public Opinion
,Sentencing Data
,Dec 09, 2015
Historical trends in executions and new death sentences closely track changes in public attitudes about the death penalty and crime in general, according to a comprehensive University of North Carolina analysis of national public opinion surveys o…
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Jul 20, 2015
A new study by Professor Frank Baumgartner of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds stark racial and geographic disparities in the application of the death pe…
