Exam 2: Economics of Capital Punishment

How do biases effect economics of capital punishment research?

What is (economic) capital?

How do the protocols in the European Council's Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms relate to capital punishment?

How did the 2006 Supreme Court decision Kansas v. Marsh (548 U.S. 163) affect the capital punishment process?

How did the 2002 Supreme Court decision Ring v. Arizona (536 U.S. 584) affect the capital punishment process?

What are some of the governmental costs of capital punishment?

What is capital punishment?

How did the 2005 Supreme Court decision Roper v. Simmons (543 U.S. 551) affect the capital punishment process?

How did the 2009 Supreme Court decision Bobby v. Bies (556 U.S. 825) affect the capital punishment process?

How did the 2008 Supreme Court decision Baze v. Rees (553 U.S 35) affect the capital punishment process?

What is a capital trial?

How did the 1976 court case Gregg v. Georgia (428 U.S. 153) affect the capital punishment process?

What is the purpose of capital punishment?

How did the 2008 Supreme Court decision Kennedy v. Louisiana (554 U.S. 407) affect the capital punishment process?

What are the eight stages of the bifurcated trial process?

Although studies find that capital punishment is not a deterrent to murder, are there incentives that could be used to cause capital punishment to become a deterrent to murder?

What are some of the choices made during the indictment stage?

Who loses (increased cost) when more cases are tried as capital cases?

What are the costs to the defendant of a capital trial?

Who gains (increased benefit) from trying more cases as capital cases?