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Sister Helen Prejean And The Death Penalty: Decades Of Fighting Capital Punishment, University Marketing And Communications, Helen Prejean May 2020

Sister Helen Prejean And The Death Penalty: Decades Of Fighting Capital Punishment, University Marketing And Communications, Helen Prejean

DePaul Download

Sister Helen Prejean has dedicated her life to opposing the death penalty after she witnessed an execution in her home state of Louisiana. Her efforts have sparked a national dialogue on capital punishment and she has helped shape the Catholic Church’s position on the topic. In 2011, she donated her personal archives to the university to help the DePaul community continue to learn from her work. On this episode of DePaul Download, Sister Helen talks about life’s work and what keeps her going.

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Replacing Death With Life? The Rise Of Lwop In The Context Of Abolitionist Campaigns In The United States, Michelle Miao Jan 2020

Replacing Death With Life? The Rise Of Lwop In The Context Of Abolitionist Campaigns In The United States, Michelle Miao

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

On the basis of fifty-four elite interviews[1] with legislators, judges, attorneys, and civil society advocates as well as a state-by-state data survey, this Article examines the complex linkage between the two major penal trends in American society during the past decades: a declining use of capital punishment across the United States and a growing population of prisoners serving “life without the possibility of parole” or “LWOP” sentences. The main contribution of the research is threefold. First, the research proposes to redefine the boundary between life and death in relation to penal discourses regarding the death penalty and LWOP. LWOP …

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An Examination Of The Death Penalty, Alexandra N. Kremer Dec 2018

An Examination Of The Death Penalty, Alexandra N. Kremer

The Downtown Review

The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the use of execution through hanging, beheading, drowning, gas chambers, lethal injection, and electrocution among others in response to a crime. This has spurred much debate on whether it should be used for reasons such as ethics, revenge, economics, effectiveness as a deterrent, and constitutionality. Capital punishment has roots that date back to the 18th century B.C., but, as of 2016, has been abolished in law or practice by more than two thirds of the world’s countries and several states within the United States. Here, the arguments for and against the death …

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Examination Of Capital Murder Jurors’ Deliberations: Methods And Issues, Keith Price, Susan Coleman, Gary R. Byrd Dec 2014

Examination Of Capital Murder Jurors’ Deliberations: Methods And Issues, Keith Price, Susan Coleman, Gary R. Byrd

Administrative Issues Journal

The study of capital juries remains a subject of critical interest for the public and for legislative and judicial policy makers as well as legal scholars and social scientists. Cowan, Thompson, and Ellsworth established one of the standard methodologies for examination of this topic in their 1984 seminal study by observing the subjects’ debate about conviction in a death penalty case utilizing mock juries; other scholars employed different techniques to add more information in the late 1990s. Yet, the question of death qualification and prosecutorial bias remains open to inquiry. This preliminary study found evidence to support bias toward conviction …

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Adaptive Behavior Malingering In Legal Claims Of Mental Retardation, Renee M. Kadlubek May 2012

Adaptive Behavior Malingering In Legal Claims Of Mental Retardation, Renee M. Kadlubek

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to put people with mental retardation to death for capital crimes (Atkins v. Virginia, 2002). Justice Scalia dissented, suggesting that mental retardation is a condition easy to feign. The current study examined whether participants provided with the definition of mental retardation and adaptive behavior ("informed malingering group") are any better at malingering having mental retardation than participants not provided with the definitions ("malingering group"). Three groups of participants participated in this study: the control group, the malingering group, and the informed malingering group. All participants completed an intellectual assessment and …

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The Echo: November 6, 1925, Taylor University Nov 1925

The Echo: November 6, 1925, Taylor University

1925-1926 (Volume 13)

Bishop Oldham Addresses Students — Dean of Women Gives Helpful Message — Ministerial Association Hears Rev. Sam Polovina — Teams Report Victories — Mr. E. O. Rice Speaks In Chapel Service — Faculty Abroad — Dr. Paul Speaks in Sunday Chapel — Men’s Bible Class — Eulogs Favorable To World Court — Station Hoosier — Mnankas Hold Weekly Meeting — Pennsylvania Students Enjoy Dinner Party — Shall The Criminal Die? — Eurekans Have Lively Debate — Hallowe’en Party — Hallowe’en Party Held In Dining Hall — Sammy Morris Has Special Dinner — John F. Knapp Visits Taylor — Buckeyes Have …

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Taylor University Echo: February 14, 1925, Taylor University Feb 1925

Taylor University Echo: February 14, 1925, Taylor University

1924-1925 (Volume 12)

The Lyceum Program — New York Students Meet — The 1925 Gem — Chronicles — Local News — In Chapel — Birthday Surprise — At The Dean’s — Work in China — The Joys of a “Ford: Christmas — Mnanka Debating Club — Soangetahas — Eureka Debating Club — Eulogonian Debating Club — The Volunteer Band — Prayer Band — Holiness League — The Youth Movement and The Ministerial Association of Taylor University — Editorial — Colds — Athletic — Simplicissimus — Taylor University

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