A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESEARCH ON JURORS
IN CAPITAL CASES
Bentele, Ursula and William J. Bowers (2001). “How jurors
decide on death: Guilt is overwhelming; aggravation requires
death; and mitigation is no excuse.” Brooklyn Law Review 66:
1011-1080.
Bienen, Leigh B. (1993). “Helping jurors out: Post-verdict
debriefing for jurors in emotionally disturbing trials.” Indiana Law
Journal 68: 1333-1355.
Blankenship, Michael B., James Luginbuhl, Francis T. Cullen, and
William Redick (1997). “Jurors’ comprehension of sentencing
instructions: A test of the death penalty process in Tennessee.”
Justice Quarterly 14: 325-351.
Blume, John H., Stephen P. Garvey, and Sheri Lynn Johnson
(2001). "Future dangerousness in capital cases: Always 'at
issue'." Cornell Law Review 86: 397- 410.
Bowers, William J., Benjamin D. Steiner, and Marla Sandys
(2001). “Death sentencing in black and white: An empirical
analysis of the role of jurors’ race and jury racial composition.”
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 3: 171274.
Bowers, William J. and Benjamin D. Steiner (1999). “Death by
default: An empirical demonstration of false and forced choices in
capital sentencing.” Texas Law Review 77: 605-717.
Bowers, William J., Marla Sandys, and Benjamin D. Steiner
(1998). “Foreclosed impartiality in capital sentencing.” Cornell
Law Review 83: 1476-1556.
Bowers, William J. and Benjamin D. Steiner (1998). “Choosing
life or death: Sentencing dynamics in capital cases.” Pp. 309349 in James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier,
eds., America’s Experiment with Capital Punishment. Durham,
NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Bowers, William J. (1995). "The Capital Jury Project: Rationale,
design, and preview of early findings." Indiana Law Journal 70:
1043-1102.
Bowers, William J. (1993). "Capital punishment and
contemporary values: People's misgivings and the Court's
misperceptions." Law and Society Review 27: 157-175.
Costanzo, Mark and Sally Costanzo (1994). “Life or death
decisions: An analysis of capital jury decision-making under the
special issues sentencing framework.” Law and Human Behavior
18: 151-170.
Costanzo, Mark and Sally Costanzo (1992). “Jury decision
making in the capital penalty phase: Legal assumptions,
empirical findings, and a research agenda.” Law and Human
Behavior 16: 185-202.
Eisenberg, Theodore, Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells
(2001). "Forecasting life and death: Juror race, religion, and
attitude toward the death penalty." Journal of Legal Studies 30:
277-311.
Eisenberg, Theodore, Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells
(2001). "The deadly paradox of capital jurors." Southern
California Law Review 74: 371-397.
Eisenberg, Theodore, Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells
(1998). "But was he sorry? The role of remorse in capital
sentencing." Cornell Law Review 83: 1599-1637.
Eisenberg, Theodore, Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells
(1996). "Jury responsibility in capital sentencing: An empirical
study." Buffalo Law Review 44: 339-380.
Eisenberg, Theodore, Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells
(1996). “Jury responsibility in capital sentencing: An empirical
study.” Buffalo Law Review 44: 339-380.
Eisenberg, Theodore and Martin T. Wells. (1993) "Deadly
confusion: Juror instructions in capital cases." Cornell Law
Review 79: 1-17.
Garvey, Stephen P. (2000). "The emotional economy of capital
sentencing." New York University Law Review 75: 26-73.
Garvey, Stephen P. (1998). "Aggravation and mitigation in
capital cases: What do jurors think?" Columbia Law Review 98:
1538-1576.
Haney, Craig and Mona Lynch (1997). “Clarifying life and death
matters: An analysis of instructional comprehension and penalty
phase closing arguments.” Law and Human Behavior 21: 575596.
Haney, Craig (1997). “Violence and the capital jury: Mechanisms
of moral disengagement and the impulse to condemn to death.”
Stanford Law Review 49: 1447-1486.
Haney, Craig, Lorelei Sontag, and Sally Costanzo (1994).
“Deciding to take a life: Capital juries, sentencing instructions, and
the jurisprudence of death.” Journal of Social Issues 50: 149-177.
Hoffmann, Joseph L. (1997). “How American juries decide death
penalty cases: The Capital Jury Project.” Pp. 333-343 in Hugo
Adam Bedau, ed., The Death Penalty in America: Current
Controversies. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hoffmann, Joseph L. (1995). “Where’s the buck? - Juror
misperception of sentencing responsibility in death penalty
cases.” Indiana Law Journal 70: 1137-1160.
Luginbuhl, James and Julie Howe (1995). “Discretion in capital
sentencing instructions: Guided or misguided?” Indiana Law
Journal 70: 1161-1181.
Sandys, Marla (1995). “Cross-overs - Capital jurors who change
their minds about the punishment: A litmus test for sentencing
guidelines.” Indiana Law Journal 70: 1183-1221.
Sarat, Austin (1995). "Violence, representation, and responsibility
in capital trials: The view from the jury." Indiana Law Journal 70:
1103-1135.
Steiner, Benjamin D., William J. Bowers, and Austin Sarat
(1999). “Professional and popular conceptions of criminal
responsibility - Folk knowledge as legal action: Death penalty
judgments and the tenet of early release in a culture of mistrust
and punitiveness.” Law and Society Review 33: 461-507.
Sundby, Scott E. (1998). "The capital jury and absolution: The
intersection of trial strategy, remorse, and the death penalty."
Cornell Law Review 83: 1557-1598.
Sundby, Scott E. (1997). “The jury as critic: An empirical look at
how capital juries perceive expert and lay testimony.” Virginia Law
Review 83: 1109-1187.
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Compiled April 2002 by Margaret Vandiver, Dept. of Criminology
and Criminal Justice, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. Many
of the listed studies used data from the Capital Jury Project,
headed by William J. Bowers, College of Criminal Justice,
Northeastern University, Boston, MA. The first phase of the
Capital Jury Project interviewed over 1,200 jurors in capital cases.
The second phase of the project is in the early stages of
interviewing.