Death penalty decision-making: Fundamentalist beliefs and the evaluation of aggravating and mitigating circumstances

Purpose. Jurors’ religious characteristics are related to death penalty attitudes and verdicts. Jurors’ religious characteristics might also relate to endorsements of aggravating circumstances (aggravators) and mitigating circumstances (mitigators)—factors that make a defendant more or less deservin...

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Authors: Yelderman, Logan A. (Author) ; West, Matthew P. (Author) ; Miller, Monica K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Legal and criminological psychology
Year: 2019, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-122
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Keywords:
Religion
Fundamentalism
Death Penalty
aggravating and mitigating circumstances
Attitudes