Death Penalty Statistics in U.S.
general laws that are open to interpretation, such as prohibiting the promotion of pro-LGBT messages to children. Sentences range from fines to life imprisonment and even the death penalty. (Human Rights Watch, 2022)18
From 1973 to 1995, a total of 4578 US death penalty cases went through the full course of appeals, with the result that 68% of the sentences were overturned! Reports of the study in various newspapers and magazines fueled public debate about capital punishment....
Scan statistics appeared in the statistics literature about half a century ago, and since then many papers suggesting either extensions and modifications or applications into various research fields have been published. Scan statistics are mainly used to detect clusters of events in time or space. In...
A number of media outlets, The Washington Post, CNN, CBS, USA Today, and Time got lower scores by being conservative and leaving a number of states (including at least one of the big three: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida) as too close to call. Twenty-six of the 39 methods failed to...
Except that many (non-crisis) countries such as Sweden aren’t borrowing. In fact,Sweden’s debt-to-GDP ratiois at its lowest point since 2012 and has been dropping like a stone since about the time that the Riksbank first lowered its policy rate to below 0%. In fact, as the Riksba...
Asbestos alone claims about 100,000 deaths every year and the figure is rising annually. Although global production of asbestos has fallen since the 1970s, increasing numbers of workers in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, and other industrialized countries are now dying from past exposure to asbest...
Three more rockets then exploded, none appeared to go higher than halfway up the mast(桅杆)of the mystery ship. Then at about 2:00 am it turned and slipped into the darkness. In the light of the dawn there was no mystery ship, but 20 miles away was the scene of a great disaster....
in the presence of covariates with partial effects, a practical scenario of interest. In this work, we propose a shrinkage approach by adopting a novel uniform adaptive LASSO penalty. The new approach enjoys easy implementation without requiring smoothing. Moreover, it can consistently identify the ...
McCleskey v. KempAlameda county CaliforniaIn the forty year history of the Supreme Court's modern death penalty jurisprudence, two cases — Furman v. Georgia (1972) and McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) — stand odoi:10.2139/ssrn.2146253Steven F. Shatz...