On behalf of the condemned? the impact of the NAACP legal defense fund on capital punishment decision making in the U.S. courts of appeals

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 191-219

  Tauber, Steven C ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/106591299805100109     Document Type: Article

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