The Effect Of Knowledge Gain On Capital Punishment: A Partial Test Of The Marshall Hypothesis

Justice Thurgood Marshall proposed a three-pronged postulate in his dissent in1972 in the Furman v. Georgia (408 U.S. 238) Supreme Court case. The American public is generally uninformed when it comes to the death penalty, and given information a "great mass of citizens" would be against i...

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Main Author: Savon, Alexander Able
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2005
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/852
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1851&context=etd