Multistate Analysis of Time Consumption in Capital Appeals, 1992-2002
Despite public controversy over the length of death penalty
appeals, little empirical work has been done on the time allocated to
the capital appeals process. The purpose of this study was to perform
a multistate empirical analysis of the time expended in direct appeals
of capital cases. The researchers included decisions from 14 states
that they believed to be representative of the 37 states that have
enforceable death penalty laws. For each of the 14 states included in
the study, the researchers examined every capital case decided on
direct appeal by the courts of last resort between the dates January
1, 1992, and December 31, 2002. The researchers developed a case
database by examining a variety of sources. For each of the 1,676
cases in the multistate database, the research team collected time
consumption data for each of the following five phases of the direct
appeal process: (1) the postsentence stage, (2) the preparation stage,
(3) the argument stage, (4) the decision stage, and (5) the supreme
court stage. Variables include state, case characteristics, court
opinion variables, dates, and time consumption variables.
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| description | Despite public controversy over the length of death penalty appeals, little empirical work has been done on the time allocated to the capital appeals process. The purpose of this study was to perform a multistate empirical analysis of the time expended in direct appeals of capital cases. The researchers included decisions from 14 states that they believed to be representative of the 37 states that have enforceable death penalty laws. For each of the 14 states included in the study, the researchers examined every capital case decided on direct appeal by the courts of last resort between the dates January 1, 1992, and December 31, 2002. The researchers developed a case database by examining a variety of sources. For each of the 1,676 cases in the multistate database, the research team collected time consumption data for each of the following five phases of the direct appeal process: (1) the postsentence stage, (2) the preparation stage, (3) the argument stage, (4) the decision stage, and (5) the supreme court stage. Variables include state, case characteristics, court opinion variables, dates, and time consumption variables. |
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| issued | 2008-03-25T13:59:34 |
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| title | Multistate Analysis of Time Consumption in Capital Appeals, 1992-2002 |
