The California Penalty Trial

Putting the Trial Penalty on Trial

Ambiguities in the Penalty Phase of Capital Proceedings: Statutory Patterns and Suggestions for California

Tracy Hughes and Shoshana Lazik THIS REPORT WAS CREATED AS A RESEARCH PROJECT OF THE PUBLIC LAW RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW. IT DOES NOT REPRESENT THE OPINIONS, VIEWS, OR POLICIES OF THE COLLEGE This Paper was produced for the Public Law Research Institute at Hastings College of the Law. Copyright 1994, University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Permission is h...

Mitigation Evaluation: Preparation for a Death Penalty Trial

The purpose of this article is to begin to sociologically define a legal standard for the courts of mitigating factors that should influence the sentence of death. The article also describes a method of inquiry that makes this definition reasonable. The material presented is intended to serve as a guide for the investigation of mitigating circumstances for the sentencing phase of a death penalt...

The oracle penalty method

A new and universal penalty method is introduced in this contribution. It is especially intended to be applied in stochastic metaheuristics like genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimization or ant colony optimization. The novelty of this method is, that it is an advanced approach that only requires one parameter to be tuned. Moreover this parameter, named oracle, is easy and intuitive to han...

Decrease of the Penalty Parameter in Differentiable Penalty Function Methods

We propose a simple modification to the differentiable penalty methods for solving nonlinear programming problems. This modification decreases the penalty parameter and the ill-conditioning of the penalty method and leads to a faster convergence to the optimal solution. We extend the modification to the augmented Lagrangian method and report some numerical results on several nonlinear programmi...