Body of Paper:
The body of your paper should provide supporting evidence to support the thesis, in a logical, fully developed manner. For each new topic which supports the overall thesis, provide a topic sentence or two. You may use subheadings but If you do not use subheadings, you need to provide transition sentences to move your reader from one paragraph to the next. You should use the sources as evidence to support key points.
Please use MLA format for this paper. Write this paper as a full research paper with a title page, proper citations and a bibliography or works cited page.
Research Paper Sources
(Not all are required to be used but at least 3 of the 6. Others may also be added as well to complete if needed.)
Radelet, Michael L. Racial Characteristics and the Imposition of the Death Penalty. American Sociological Review, vol. 46, no. 6, [American Sociological Association, Sage Publications, Inc.], 1981, pp. 91827, https://doi.org/10.2307/2095088.
– This paper goes into depth on the question of whether the death penalty statutes passed after the 1972 supreme court decision in Furman v. Georgia successfully eliminate racial disparities in capital cases.
Marcus, Michael H., and David S. Weissbrodt. The Death Penalty Cases. California Law Review, vol. 56, no. 5, California Law Review, Inc., 1968, pp. 1268490, https://doi.org/10.2307/3479375.
– The California Law Review (founded in 1912) was the first student law journal published west of Illinois. The Review is published six times a year (January, March, May, July, October & December). Each issues contains articles, book reviews and essays contributed by professors, members of the bench & bar, students and non students. There are many find points made on the death penalty.
Hood, Roger, and Carolyn Hoyle. Abolishing the Death Penalty Worldwide: The Impact of a New Dynamic. Crime and Justice, vol. 38, no. 1, [The University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago], 2009, pp. 163, https://doi.org/10.1086/599200.
– I feel like this being published by the University of Chicago along with the title that was chosen could give a different vantage point on the topic of the death penalty.
Nice, David C. The States and the Death Penalty. The Western Political Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 4, [University of Utah, Sage Publications, Inc., Western Political Science Association], 1992, pp. 103748, https://doi.org/10.2307/448824.
– In the 1970s a combination of Supreme Court rulings and the level of crime problems gave the American states an opportunity to revise their death penalty laws. Analysis of both formal policy provisions and the application of those policies reveals that the death penalty decisions are closely linked to the climate of public opinion and the rate of murders.
Rapaport, Elizabeth. The Death Penalty and Gender Discrimination. Law & Society Review, vol. 25, no. 2, [Wiley, Law and Society Association], 1991, pp. 36783, https://doi.org/10.2307/3053803.
-Despite the small amount of research on the death penalty and gender discrimination, it is widely supposed that women murderers are usually spared the death sentence. This assumption is fueled by the relatively small number of women who are condemned to the death penalty. This paper argues that women are represented differently then men on the United States death rows in numbers due to the inconsistent patterns of females that qualify for it.
Reinhardt, Stephen. The Supreme Court, The Death Penalty, and The Harris Case. The Yale Law Journal, vol. 102, no. 1, The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc., 1992, pp. 20523, https://doi.org/10.2307/796774.
– This Yale Law Journal talks about how crucial the Harris Case was at a specific time in history along with the process and how ugly, cruel and unjust it was and how the American legal system failed to function fairly or even well.
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