How Many People Have Been Unconstitutionally Executed in Texas?

Dow, David R.; Ansari-Bayegan, Safa

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2228311

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How Many People Have Been Unconstitutionally Executed in Texas?

5 Pages Posted: 5 Mar 2013

See all articles by David R. Dow

Safa Ansari-Bayegan

University of Houston

Date Written: March 1, 2013

Abstract

We examine life sentences in capital cases from 2007 until 2012 to determine how many death row inmates sentenced from 1977 to 1991 would have received sentences of life in prison rather than death had the Texas sentencing scheme not been unconstitutional.

Keywords: death penalty, capital punishment, life in prison

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Dow, David R. and Ansari-Bayegan, Safa, How Many People Have Been Unconstitutionally Executed in Texas? (March 1, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2228311 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2228311