Death penalty instructions to jurors : still not comprehensible after all these years

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Autor(a) principal: Stygall, Gail
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/LLLD/article/view/2445
Resumo: This paper describes and analyzes the unrevised, current state of death penalty pattern jury instructions in the state of Washington. With comparisons to the findings of the Capital Jury Project, this study examines why the death penalty instructions are even more difficult than the ordinary, difficult to understand US pattern jury instructions. The concept of mitigation presents particular problems, with jurors misunderstanding the instruction, misapplying it or ignoring it. As mitigation is the alternative to aggravation and a death penalty verdict, this problem is critical. In addition, as Judith Levi (1993) found in the Illinois death penalty pattern jury instructions, the instructions in general point to a default position for death. Washington’s pattern jury instructions for death penalty cases are as difficult to comprehend as both pattern jury instructions in general and death penalty instructions in particular.
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spelling Death penalty instructions to jurors : still not comprehensible after all these yearsArticlesThis paper describes and analyzes the unrevised, current state of death penalty pattern jury instructions in the state of Washington. With comparisons to the findings of the Capital Jury Project, this study examines why the death penalty instructions are even more difficult than the ordinary, difficult to understand US pattern jury instructions. The concept of mitigation presents particular problems, with jurors misunderstanding the instruction, misapplying it or ignoring it. As mitigation is the alternative to aggravation and a death penalty verdict, this problem is critical. In addition, as Judith Levi (1993) found in the Illinois death penalty pattern jury instructions, the instructions in general point to a default position for death. Washington’s pattern jury instructions for death penalty cases are as difficult to comprehend as both pattern jury instructions in general and death penalty instructions in particular.Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto2017-05-30info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/LLLD/article/view/2445por2183-3745Stygall, Gailinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-01-13T03:47:06Zoai:ojs.letras.up.pt/ojs:article/2445Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:31:20.940026Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Death penalty instructions to jurors : still not comprehensible after all these years
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Stygall, Gail
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title_short Death penalty instructions to jurors : still not comprehensible after all these years
title_full Death penalty instructions to jurors : still not comprehensible after all these years
title_fullStr Death penalty instructions to jurors : still not comprehensible after all these years
title_full_unstemmed Death penalty instructions to jurors : still not comprehensible after all these years
title_sort Death penalty instructions to jurors : still not comprehensible after all these years
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description This paper describes and analyzes the unrevised, current state of death penalty pattern jury instructions in the state of Washington. With comparisons to the findings of the Capital Jury Project, this study examines why the death penalty instructions are even more difficult than the ordinary, difficult to understand US pattern jury instructions. The concept of mitigation presents particular problems, with jurors misunderstanding the instruction, misapplying it or ignoring it. As mitigation is the alternative to aggravation and a death penalty verdict, this problem is critical. In addition, as Judith Levi (1993) found in the Illinois death penalty pattern jury instructions, the instructions in general point to a default position for death. Washington’s pattern jury instructions for death penalty cases are as difficult to comprehend as both pattern jury instructions in general and death penalty instructions in particular.
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