Death Penalty Statistics in U.S.
Warren McCleskey is a black man who was sentenced to death in 1978 for the murder of a white police officer in Atlanta, Georgia. He challenged the constitutionality of his sentence on the grounds that Georgia administered its death-sentencing laws during
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...
Death penalty statistics reflect ongoing disparityGilbert Price
Innocence and the Death Penalty: Current Statistics and ExonerationsHarmon, Talia
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...
Misleading statistics and the death penalty—two authors reply to Henry Leverdoi:10.2307/23250312Franklin E Zimring and Jan H van RooyenComparative & International Law Journal of Southern Africa
Challenging the Death Penalty with Statistics: Furman, McCleskey and a Single County Case Studydoi:10.2139/ssrn.2146253Steven F. ShatzTerry Dalton
The death penalty as a biased lottery: Richard A. Berk, Department Sociology and Program in Social Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, U.S.A.HumansLeukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-CellBrown JR.doi:10.1016/j.hoc.2013.01.009Brown JR...
Friedman, R.E. (2000). Statistics and death: The conspicuous role of race bias in the administration of the death penalty. La Raza Law Journal, 11(83), 75-90.Statistics and Death:The Conspicuous Role of Race Bias in the Administration of Death Penalty. Ruth E.Friedman. The Berkeley ...