The role of death qualification in Jurors' susceptibility to pretrial publicity

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-123

  Butler, Brooke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SARASOTA MANATEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846159147     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-9029.2007.00150.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002).
2. Besirevic, J., & Fulero, S. (1999). The effects of pretrial publicity on juror verdicts: A meta-analytic review. Law and Human Behavior, 23, 219-235.
3. Butler, B. (in press). The role of death qualification in capital trials involving juvenile defendants. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
4. Butler, B., & Moran, G. (2002). The role of death qualification in venirepersons' perceptions of aggravating and mitigating circumstances in capital trials. Law and Human Behavior, 26, 175-184.
5. Butler, B., & Moran, G. (in press). The impact of death qualification, belief in a just world, legal authoritarianism, and locus of control on venirepersons' evaluations of aggravating and mitigating circumstances in capital trials. Behavioral Sciences and the Law.
6. Butler, B., & Wasserman, A. W. (2006). The role of death qualification in venirepersons' attitudes toward the insanity defense. Journal, of Applied Social Psychology, 36, 1744-1757.
7. Dexter, H. R., Cutler, B. L., & Moran, G. (1992). A test of voir dire as a remedy for pretrial publicity. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 22, 819-832.
8. Diamond, S. S. (1993). Instructing on death: Psychologists, juries, and judges. American Psychologist, 48, 423-434.
9. Ellsworth, P. C., Bukaty, R. M., Cowan, C. L., & Thompson, W. C. (1984). The death-qualified jury and the insanity defense. Law and Human Behavior, 8, 81-93.
10. Fitzgerald, R., & Ellsworth, P. C. (1984). Due process vs. crime control: Death qualification and jury attitudes. Law and Human Behavior, 8, 31-51.
11. Florida v. Joseph Peter Smith, CF 002129 NC (2004).
12. Haney, C. (1984). On the selection of capital juries: The biasing effects of death qualification. Law and Human Behavior, 8, 121-132.
13. Haney, C. (2005). Death by design: Capital punishment as a social psychological system. New York: Oxford University Press.
14. Haney, C., Hurtado, A., & Vega, L. (1994). "Modern" death qualification: New data on its biasing effects. Law and Human Behavior, 18, 619-633.
15. Hans, V. P. (1986). Death by jury. In K. C. Haas & J. A. Incardi (Eds.), Challenging capital punishment: Legal and social science approaches (Vol. 24, pp. 149-175). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
16. Lockhart v. McCree, 476 U.S. 162 (1986).
17. Luginbuhl, J. (1992). Comprehension of judges' instructions in the penalty phase of a capital trial: Focus on mitigating circumstances. Law and Human Behavior, 16, 203-218.
18. Luginbuhl, J., & Middendorf, K. (1988). Death penalty beliefs and jurors' responses to aggravating and mitigating circumstances in capital trials. Law and Human Behavior, 12, 263-281.
19. Lynch, M., & Haney, C. (2000). Discrimination and instructional comprehension: Guided discretion, racial bias, and the death penalty. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 337-358.
20. Moran, G., & Comfort, J. C. (1986). Neither "tentative" nor "fragmentary": Verdict preference of impaneled felony jurors as a function of attitude toward capital punishment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 71, 146-155.
21. Moran, G., & Cutler, B. L. (1991). The prejudicial impact of pretrial publicity. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 21, 345-367.
22. Otto, A. L., Penrod, S. D., & Dexter, H. R. (1994). The biasing impact of pretrial publicity on juror judgments. Law and Human Behavior, 18, 453-469.
23. Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002).
24. Robinson, R. J. (1993). What does "unwilling to impose the death penalty" mean anyway? Another look at excludable jurors. Law and Human Behavior, 77, 471-477.
25. rd 397 (Supreme Ct. of Missouri, 2005).
26. Saewitz, M. (2004a, February 12). Fair trial unlikely, lawyer says. Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 1A.
27. Saewitz, M. (2004b, February 21). Details of abduction, slaying emerge: An indictment of Joseph P. Smith confirms that Carlie Brucia was sexually assaulted and strangled. Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 1A.
28. Saewitz, M. (2004c, February 24). Smith's attorney says publicity biased grand jury. Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 1A.
29. Saewitz, M. (2004d, March 21). Experts: Mounting a defense for Smith will be difficult. Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 1A.
30. Steblay, N. M., Besirevic, J., Fulero, S. M., & Jimenez-Lorente, B. (1999). The effects of pretrial publicity on juror verdicts: A meta-analytic review. Law and Human Behavior, 23, 219-235.
31. Studebaker, C. A., Robbennolt, J. K., Penrod, S. D., Pathak-Sharma, M. K., Groscup, J. L., & Devenport, J. L. (2002). Studying pretrial publicity effects: New methods for improving ecological validity and testing external validity. Law and Human Behavior, 26, 19-41.
32. Thompson, W. C., Cowan, C. L., Ellsworth, P. C., & Harrington, J. C. (1984). Death penalty attitudes and conviction proneness: The translation of attitudes into verdicts. Law and Human Behavior, 8, 95-113.
33. Wainwright v. Witt, 469 U.S. 412 (1985).
34. Wiener, R. L., Pritchard, C. C., & Weston, M. (1995). Comprehensibility of approved jury instructions in capital murder cases. Journal of Applied Psychology, 80, 455-467.