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#11512. Racialized Victim Gender Differences in Capital Decision Making in Pennsylvania

July 2026	publication date
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Law; Pathology and Forensic Medicine;

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Abstract:
The death penalty has historically been used to communicate moral outrage and fear about the murders of some kinds of victims more than others. A large body of research has inquired into the effects of defendant race, and to a lesser extent victim race in capital punishment. However, there is much less research on how victim gender influences capital punishment decisions, and even less research on how victim gender and race might intersect to influence such decisions. This study examines the role of victim gender and race in: prosecutors’ decisions to seek the death penalty, prosecutors’ decisions to retract death filings, and jury or judge decisions to sentence defendants to the death penalty. The intersecting gender and race of victims conditioned each of the death penalty outcomes. In addition, whether the victim had children conditioned the effects of victim gender/race.
Keywords:
Death penalty; gender disparity; prosecutorial discretion; racial disparity; sentencing

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