The Effect of Wrongful Conviction Rate on Death Penalty Support and How It Closes the Racial Gap

Prior studies have revealed that wrongful conviction may affect people’s view of the death penalty. But few of them explained why people who believed innocent people were executed still supported the death penalty. This study proposes that what matters may not be whether respondents believed that wr...

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Main Author: Wu, Sishi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2022, Volume: 47, Issue: 5, Pages: 1006-1024
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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