CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 114 A BILL TO ESTABLISH CONSTITUTIONAL PROCEDURES FOR 79-623 APRIL 10, 27 AND MAY 1, 1981 Serial No. J-97-13 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1981 CONTENTS PROPOSED LEGISLATION S. 114-A bill to establish rational criteria for the imposition of the sentence ................................ OPENING STATEMENTS Thurmond, Senator Strom (Chairman).. Specter, Senator Arlen....... Grassley, Senator Charles. East, Senator John P.... CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Jensen, D. Lowell, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Depart- Robinson, David, Jr., professor of law, George Washington University. Stovall, Roscoe, president and legislative counsel, Protect the Innocent, In- MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1981 Darwick, Norman, executive director, International Association of Chiefs of Levin, Hon. Carl, a U.S. Senator from the State of Michigan 96 128 132 231 FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1981 Berns, Walter, resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public 244 McGee, Vincent, chairman of the board of directors, Amnesty International, 261 Kroll, Michael, D.Č. Coalition Against the Death Penalty; accompanied by 292 Just, Bernice, Friends Committee on National Legislation and the American 314 Pearson, Col. Fred, congressional liaison, National Association of Chiefs of Study conducted by David Phillips of the University of California in San Diego; concluded that homicides decrease following a publicized execu- Attitudes toward capital punishment for persons convicted of murder by demographic characteristics, 1972-78 Attitudes toward capital punishment of murderers as a deterrent to murder.... Attitudes toward capital punishment for persons convicted of rape. Estimated number and rate of offenses known to police...... Murders and nonnegligent manslaughters known to police, by sex, race, and Page Arrests, by offense charged, race, and age group. Estimated number of inmates of State correctional facilities.. Number of, average sentence for, and average time served by, first releasees Prisoners under sentence of death, by race and jurisdiction, February 1979 88 89 90 91 92 107 Recidivism of murderers released in selected States, 1900–76. Type of attorney currently representing death row inmates, 1978. Correlations between differences in executions and differences in homicide 322 340 rates for selected States and selected time periods.... 453 The influence of executions on relative homicide rates. 454 455 Indictments, charges, convictions, and death sentences in 10 counties of N.C.... 502 518 Probability of receiving the death sentence in Florida, Georgia, and Texas for felony and nonfelony murder, by race. 523 Probability of receiving the death sentence in Florida and Georgia for criminal homicide, by judicial circuits/counties... 527 Probability of receiving the death sentence in Florida and Georgia for felony and nonfelony homicide, by judicial circuits/counties.... 528 Probability of receiving the death sentence in Florida for felony-type murder, by race of victim and judicial circuits...... 530 Charges, indictments, convictions, and death sentences in Florida for criminal homicide, by race of offender and victim 533 Charges, indictments, convictions, and death sentences in Florida for felony and nonfelony homicide, by race of offender and victim........ Probability of receiving the death sentence in Florida for criminal homicide, by judicial circuits....... Probability of receiving the death sentence in Florida for felony and nonfelony homicide, by judicial circuits..... Probability that the death sentence for criminal homicide in Florida and Georgia will be affirmed upon appellate review, by race of offender and victim.. Probability that the death sentence for felony-type homicide in Florida and Aggravating circumstances found among death sentences in Florida and Aggravating factors reported among death sentences in Florida and Georgia... Estimated effects of execution on homicides, controlling for seasonality with increasing time trend polynomials 552 579 Estimated effects of execution on homicides, controlling for seasonality and 583 People under sentence of death, 1972. 620 States which have capital punishment, but which have had no executions in 10 years or more... 621 Capital crimes in the U.S. 632 Six graphs on criminal homicide rates, 1963-70, comparing several abolition and retention States 655 Weekly homicides before, during, and after publicized executions, London, 1858-1921...... 690 Final verdict for convicted felony-murder suspects tried as adults 700 700 701 702 Final verdict for convicted homicide suspects tried as adults.. 704 704 706 706 707 |