Chapter 8 Learning Objectives

  • Understand the changing pattern of capital punishment in terms of race
  • Understand the race-of-defendant and race-of-victim discrimination charges
  • Know the legal and scientific reasoning behind the abolition of the juvenile death penalty
  • Understand why women are underrepresented on death row and among people executed
  • Know the difference between mental disability and mental illness and how these impairments impact death penalty decisions
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