RT Article
T1 Accommodating death penalty legislation: Personal and professional views of assistant district attorneys toward capital punishment
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 25
IS 1
SP 15
OP 29
A1 Callahan, Lisa
A2 Acker, James R.
A2 Cerulli, Catherine
LA English
YR 2000
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764205030
AB Reinstatement of the death penalty in New York in 1995 forced an entire generation of prosecutors to confront capital punishment for the first time in their professional capacities. A total of 191 assistant district attorneys (ADAs) from 44 of New York’s 62 county prosecutors’ offices responded to a written survey. The results show ADAs hold widely divergent views about capital punishments, although most respondents fail to recognize their colleagues maintain differing viewpoints. The return of the death penalty appears to have both personal and professional implications for New York ADAs, and has precipitated potentially significant changes in their work environments.
K1 Prosecutorial Discretion
K1 Death Penalty State
K1 Capital Case
K1 Defense Attorney
K1 Death Penalty
DO 10.1007/BF02886808