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New scholarship on charging decisions

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

New scholarship by Katherine Y. Barnes, David Sloss, & Stephen C. Thaman, entitled Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial Discretion and Capital Punishment in Missouri. The trio examines, as the article’s name suggests, capital charging decisions in Missouri. Specifically, the article examines how both race & location play key roles in who lives & who dies in Missouri. From the abstract: This article presents the results of an empirical study of intentional homicide cases in Missouri. The authors created a database of 1046 cases; it includes substantially all of the homicide cases prosecuted in Missouri over a five year period that were initially charged as murder or voluntary manslaughter and that yielded criminal convictions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).