Who Lives and Dies on Death Row? Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Sentence Outcomes in Texas

Petrie, Michelle; Coverdill, James E.

doi:10.1525/sp.2010.57.4.630

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“…However, research does not have much impact on the beliefs of people, especially those in prison and on death row. Despite the fact that recent research has shown that cases with Black and Hispanic offenders have a lower hazard of execution in Texas (Petrie & Coverdill, 2010), the belief that minorities are treated more harshly by the criminal justice system persists.…”

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Ethnic Differences in the Statements Made by Inmates About to be Executed in Texas

Lester

Gunn

2013

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

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Ethnic Differences in the Statements Made by Inmates About to be Executed in Texas

Lester

Gunn

2013

Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice

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“…Simulation studies have not firmly established how many imputed data sets should be created and used in analyses. We follow recent recommendations and practice (Graham, Olchowski, & Gilreath, 2007; Petrie & Coverdill, 2010) and use 20 for the main analysis and a 21st to obtain postestimation test statistics. The method was implemented via Royston’s (2007) ICE procedure and the MIM routine (Carlin, Galati, & Royston, 2008) in Stata 11.1.…”

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Disentangling Victim Gender and Capital Punishment

Phillips

L²,

Coverdill

2011

Feminist Criminology

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For decades, scholars have documented disparities in the administration of capital punishment. Yet explanations remain largely elusive. One area in which the shift from documentation to explanation has occurred is victim gender. Williams, Demuth, and Holcomb (2007) demonstrate that the death penalty is more likely to be imposed on behalf of women and girls because such victims are more apt to be sexually degraded. We ask the next logical question: Why does sexual degradation lead to the ultimate state sanction? Is it simply because such cases are so horrific? Or are more subtle causal mechanisms at play? Our findings indicate that the relationship between sexual degradation and the District Attorney’s decision to seek the death penalty is fully explained by media coverage. The role of the media suggests that scholars who hope to explain disparities in capital punishment must consider the interplay between case attributes and broader social institutions.

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“…Post-conviction procedures such as mandatory appeals of all capital sentences have also been introduced as checks against arbitrariness in capital decisions. While such procedures may in principle be capable of reducing the total number of unjust death sentences, they may simultaneously introduce additional ways for racial bias to shape outcomes, insofar as sentence relief becomes more likely for White than Black defendants (Petrie and Coverdill 2010).…”

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Can Capital Punishment Survive If Black Lives Matter?

Cholbi¹,

Madva²

2021

The Movement for Black Lives

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Drawing upon empirical studies of racial discrimination, the Movement for Black Lives platform calls for the abolition of capital punishment. The authors defend the Movement’s claim that the death penalty in the United States is a “racist practice” that “devalues Black lives.” They first sketch the jurisprudential history of race and capital punishment in the United States, wherein courts have occasionally expressed worries about racial injustice but have usually called for reform rather than abolition. They argue that the racial discrimination at issue flows in part from implicit biases concerning race, criminality, and violence, which do not fit comfortably within the picture of racial bias advanced by the courts. The case for abolition rests on Black Americans as a class (not merely those who interact with the criminal justice system as capital defendants or as murder victims) being subject to such bias and thereby not being accorded equal status under the law.

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Who Lives and Dies on Death Row? Race, Ethnicity, and Post-Sentence Outcomes in Texas

Cited by 10 publications

References 26 publications

Ethnic Differences in the Statements Made by Inmates About to be Executed in Texas

Ethnic Differences in the Statements Made by Inmates About to be Executed in Texas

Disentangling Victim Gender and Capital Punishment

Can Capital Punishment Survive If Black Lives Matter?

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