Death Row Resistance, Politics and Capital Punishment in 1970s Jamaica

Getting off Death Row: Commuted Sentences and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment*

This paper merges a state-level panel data set that includes crime and deterrence measures and state characteristics with information on all death sentences handed out in the United States between 1977 and 1997. Because the exact month and year of each execution and removal from death row can be identified, they are matched with state-level criminal activity in the relevant time frame. Controll...

Capital Punishment: A Philosophical Rejection of Punishment by Death

Experiencing ubiquitous contention, the correlation between execution as a form of legal punishment and morality pervades in the modern era to form a central concern for examination. Competing accounts of moral theories have provided dichotomous vindications for capital punishment, indicating a substantial strife in criminal justice morality. This thesis will examine these rival philosophies in...

Homicide and Capital Punishment

Euthanasia, Capital Punishment, Murder

Invariant Subspaces and Capital Punishment (a Participatory Paper) Invariant Subspaces and Capital Punishment (a Participatory Paper)

abstract The notion of invariant subspaces is useful in a number of theoretical and practical applications. In this paper we give an elementary treatment of invariant subspaces that stresses their connection with simple eigenvalues and their eigenvectors.