Why women aren't executed: gender bias and the death penalty

Article Abstract:

Women convicted of capital crimes are not seen by society as being as evil as male murderers so only one of the 112 women sentenced to death since capital punishment was reinstated in 1973 has been executed. Researchers have found that courts and juries are inclined to be more sympathetic to women. Women are more likely than men to have killed someone they know in an unpremeditated fashion. Death penalty opponents have considered raising gender bias as grounds for reversing death penalty sentences against men, but courts have been reluctant to hear discrimination matters without particularized proof.

Research, Demographic aspects, Women murderers, states

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Escape from the cuckoo's nest: one man's fight to help abandoned mental patients

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Attorney Samuel Levine is representing three long-term mental patients committed to state mental hospitals on Long Island, NY, to reform the system that resulted in abuse, neglect and denial of his clients' due process rights. One of the plaintiff's spend 60 years in an institution as a "voluntary" patient and never had his case reviewed. Levine believes that the state hospitals should be replaced by private hospitals that would be monitored by advocates. The US Justice Dept. has also found that care and treatment at these hospitals was inadequate.

Personal narratives, Cases, Civil commitment, Mentally ill persons, Mentally ill, Mentally disabled persons, Psychiatric hospital patients, New York (State), Disabled legal assistance, Legal assistance to the mentally handicapped

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How many innocent inmates are executed? An Illinois coalition moves to stop the death penalty in the wake of startling statistics

Article Abstract:

A coalition from the legal profession in 1996 asked the Illinois Supreme Court for a one-year moratorium on setting execution-dates to allow time for an investigation of why so many innocent prisoners were executed in Illinois. A request for a special commission with judges, prosecutors, and noted members of the criminal defense bar was also included. The Cook County state's attorney's office responded that Illinois provided prisoners numerous reviews of their cases and these death row defendants' freedom was proof the system worked.

Evaluation, Statistics, Illinois, Prison sentences

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