Rate of false conviction of criminal defendants who are sentenced to death

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7230-7235

  Gross, Samuel R ^a   O'Brien, Barbara ^b   Hu, Chen ^c   Kennedy, Edward H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COURT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PUNISHMENT; THREAT; WRONGFUL DEATH;

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; WRONGFUL CONVICTION;

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CRIMINALS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; PRISONERS; PRISONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901036367     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306417111     Document Type: Article

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