@article{ref1,
title="When domestic goes capital: juror decision making in capital murder trials involving domestic homicide",
journal="Law and human behavior",
year="2015",
author="Richards, Tara N. and Smith, M. Dwayne and Fogel, Sondra J. and Bjerregaard, Beth",
volume="39",
number="4",
pages="402-415",
abstract="Prior research suggests that homicide cases involving familial offenders and victims are subject to a &quot;domestic discount&quot; that reduces sentencing severity. However, the operation of a domestic discount in regard to death penalty sentencing has been rarely examined. The current research uses a near-population of jury decisions in capital murder trials conducted in North Carolina from 1991 to 2009 (n = 800), and a series of logistic regression analyses to determine whether there is (a) a direct effect between offender-victim relationship (e.g., domestic, friend/acquaintance, and stranger) and jury decision making, and/or (b) whether domestic offender-victim relationship (as well as other offender-victim relationships) moderates the effect of legal and extralegal case characteristics on jury assessment of the death penalty. Our findings revealed no empirical support for a &quot;domestic discount&quot; whereby juries are less likely to impose death sentences in cases involving domestic homicides. However, substantial differences in predictors of death sentencing were found across offender-victim dyads; most notably, domestic homicide cases demonstrated the most legalistic model of jury decisions to impose death sentences. (PsycINFO Database Record<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0147-7307",
doi="10.1037/lhb0000129",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000129"
}