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NEW RESOURCES: In Missouri, Death Sentence May Depend on Geography

By Death Penalty Information Center

According to a recent study by Prof. David Sloss of the St. Louis University School of Law, and others, only a small percentage of eligible murder cases in Missouri are prosecuted as death penalty cases, and even fewer result in a death sentence. Only 2.5 percent of defendants prosecuted for intentional homicide are sentenced to death. In another 2.5 percent of cases, juries reject the death penalty. Ninety-five percent of intentional homicide cases are never presented to the jury as capital cases. But rather than depending on which are the worst crimes, the chance of a death sentence appears to rest more on what part of the state the crime was committed in.

Full post as published by Death Penalty Information Center on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).