Entries tagged with “Tim Lyman”
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Apr 28, 2016
STUDIES: Louisiana Death Penalty Staggeringly Error-Prone, Racially Biased
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 of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Professor Frank Baumgartner and statistician Tim Lyman. The study, to be published in the Southern University Law Center’s Journal of Race, Gender and Poverty, also reveals dramatic racial disparities in both the trial…
Policy Issues
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Jun 10, 2022
STUDIES: Louisiana Study Finds Race and Gender Bias in Application of Death Penalty
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 were more than five times as likely to seek the death penalty, and juries more than five times as likely to impose it, in cases involving a Black male offender and a white female victim than in crimes in which both the alleged offender and the victim…
Policy Issues
Race
,Aug 31, 2015
STUDIES: Louisiana Study Reports Stark Death-Penalty Disparities Linked to Race and Gender of Victims
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 depending upon the race and gender of the homicide victim. The study — to be published in the Loyola University of New Orleans Journal of Public Interest Law — finds that defendants accused of killing white victims are nearly twice as likely to be sentenced…