Because most of the professional literature on capital punishment reflects only official statistics on death row populations, the author decided to spend eighteen days on Florida's Death Row, which contains the largest population of condemned men in the country, interviewing inmates and studying their prison files. Eighty-three of the (then) ninety-six death row inmates were interviewed extensively. A criminological profile of Florida's condemned is presented, and the backgrounds of the offenders and a typical week on death row are described. It is concluded that the race of the victim may play a significant role in the sentencing of capital offenders, and that executing these offenders does not provide significantly more incapacitation than life sentences would.
Social Attitudes Toward Life Sentence in Relation to Minor and Juvenile Offenders - Replication of Edie Green's and Andrew Evelo's Studies (2013)
