The deadly paradox of capital jurors

Southern California Law Review

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 371-

  Eisenberg, Theodore ^a   Garvey, Stephen P ^a   Wells, Martin T ^a  

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References (9)

1. See, e.g., Phoebe C. Ellsworth & Samuel R. Gross, Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty, J. SOC. ISSUES, Summer 1994, at 19, 20 fig.1 (showing trends in attitudes toward the death penalty since 1936); James Alan Fox, Michael L. Radelet & Julie L. Bonsteel, Death Penalty Opinion in the Post-Furman Years, 18 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 499, 503, 517 fig.1 (1990-91) (same); Samuel R. Gross, Update: American Public Opinion on the Death Penalty - It's Getting Personal, 83 CORNELL L. REV. 1448, 1450 fig.1 (1998) (same since 1952); Mark Gillespie, Public Opinion Supports Death Penalty, at http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr990224.asp (Feb. 24, 1999).
2. See, e.g., Phoebe C. Ellsworth & Samuel R. Gross, Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty, J. SOC. ISSUES, Summer 1994, at 19, 20 fig.1 (showing trends in attitudes toward the death penalty since 1936); James Alan Fox, Michael L. Radelet & Julie L. Bonsteel, Death Penalty Opinion in the Post-Furman Years, 18 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 499, 503, 517 fig.1 (1990-91) (same); Samuel R. Gross, Update: American Public Opinion on the Death Penalty - It's Getting Personal, 83 CORNELL L. REV. 1448, 1450 fig.1 (1998) (same since 1952); Mark Gillespie, Public Opinion Supports Death Penalty, at http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr990224.asp (Feb. 24, 1999).
3. See, e.g., Phoebe C. Ellsworth & Samuel R. Gross, Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty, J. SOC. ISSUES, Summer 1994, at 19, 20 fig.1 (showing trends in attitudes toward the death penalty since 1936); James Alan Fox, Michael L. Radelet & Julie L. Bonsteel, Death Penalty Opinion in the Post-Furman Years, 18 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 499, 503, 517 fig.1 (1990-91) (same); Samuel R. Gross, Update: American Public Opinion on the Death Penalty - It's Getting Personal, 83 CORNELL L. REV. 1448, 1450 fig.1 (1998) (same since 1952); Mark Gillespie, Public Opinion Supports Death Penalty, at http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr990224.asp (Feb. 24, 1999).
4. See, e.g., Phoebe C. Ellsworth & Samuel R. Gross, Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty, J. SOC. ISSUES, Summer 1994, at 19, 20 fig.1 (showing trends in attitudes toward the death penalty since 1936); James Alan Fox, Michael L. Radelet & Julie L. Bonsteel, Death Penalty Opinion in the Post-Furman Years, 18 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 499, 503, 517 fig.1 (1990-91) (same); Samuel R. Gross, Update: American Public Opinion on the Death Penalty - It's Getting Personal, 83 CORNELL L. REV. 1448, 1450 fig.1 (1998) (same since 1952); Mark Gillespie, Public Opinion Supports Death Penalty, at http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr990224.asp (Feb. 24, 1999).
5. See, e.g., William Bowers, Capital Punishment and Contemporary Values: People's Misgivings and the Court's Misperceptions, 27 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 157, 164 tbl.1.B (1993) (presenting data from seven polls conducted between 1986 and 1991); William J. Bowers, Margaret Vandiver & Patricia H. Dugan, A New Look at Public Opinion on Capital Punishment: What Citizens and Legislators Prefer, 22 AM. J. CRIM. L. 77, 90-91 tbl.I.B (1994) (presenting data from eleven polls conducted between 1986 and 1994); Edmund F. McGarrell & Marla Sandys, The Misperception of Public Opinion Toward Capital Punishment, 39 AM. BEHAV. SCI. 500, 506 tbl.2 (1996) (summarizing data from 1993 Indiana poll).
6. See, e.g., William Bowers, Capital Punishment and Contemporary Values: People's Misgivings and the Court's Misperceptions, 27 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 157, 164 tbl.1.B (1993) (presenting data from seven polls conducted between 1986 and 1991); William J. Bowers, Margaret Vandiver & Patricia H. Dugan, A New Look at Public Opinion on Capital Punishment: What Citizens and Legislators Prefer, 22 AM. J. CRIM. L. 77, 90-91 tbl.I.B (1994) (presenting data from eleven polls conducted between 1986 and 1994); Edmund F. McGarrell & Marla Sandys, The Misperception of Public Opinion Toward Capital Punishment, 39 AM. BEHAV. SCI. 500, 506 tbl.2 (1996) (summarizing data from 1993 Indiana poll).
7. See, e.g., William Bowers, Capital Punishment and Contemporary Values: People's Misgivings and the Court's Misperceptions, 27 LAW & SOC'Y REV. 157, 164 tbl.1.B (1993) (presenting data from seven polls conducted between 1986 and 1991); William J. Bowers, Margaret Vandiver & Patricia H. Dugan, A New Look at Public Opinion on Capital Punishment: What Citizens and Legislators Prefer, 22 AM. J. CRIM. L. 77, 90-91 tbl.I.B (1994) (presenting data from eleven polls conducted between 1986 and 1994); Edmund F. McGarrell & Marla Sandys, The Misperception of Public Opinion Toward Capital Punishment, 39 AM. BEHAV. SCI. 500, 506 tbl.2 (1996) (summarizing data from 1993 Indiana poll).
8. See Ellsworth & Gross, supra note 1, at 24 (noting the "absence of systematic differences between the results of competing polls that phrase their questions about capital punishment differently").
9. Cf. id. at 39 (finding that "people are far more likely to favor the death penalty in the abstract than they are to favor it in specific, concrete cases") (citations omitted).