Attitude toward capital punishment is related to capital and non-capital sentencing

North American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 567-590

  McKelvie, Stuart J ^a  

^a BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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