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Update on the nation’s leading expert on women and the death penalty

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Two great posts on Victor, Streib, regarded by many as the leading authority on women & the death penalty.  As DWNC notes: Victor Streib, a nationally known expert in women and the death penalty, has joined the faculty of Elon University School of Law. North Carolina ranks third nationwide, behind Texas and California, in the total number of women sentenced to death since the death penalty was reinstated in the mid-70s. You can read Streib?s most recent study of women on death row here. And now from DPIC: Victor Streib, who has been researching the subject of women and the death penalty for 20 years, has released an updated version of his report ?Death Penalty for Female Offenders.? In his research, Prof. Streib, a professor at Elon University School of Law in North Carolina and Ohio Northern University?s Pettit College of Law, has found that women are significantly less likely than men to receive a death sentence, possibly because prosecutors seem less inclined to seek the death penalty against female offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).