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• Public opinion
• Crime, victims
• Arrests, seizures
• Courts, prosecution, sentencing
• Parole, jails, prisons, death penalty

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

• Executions
• Murder and death penalty trend
• Offense
• Race
• Region
• State
• Method of execution authorized
• Movement of prisoners under sentence of death
• Removed from death row
• Sentence outcome
• Number of prisoners under sentence of death
• Age
• Murder and death penalty trend
• Race and ethnicity
• Region
• Sentence outcome
• Sex
• State
• Public opinion
• College freshmen
• Deterrent effect
• Fairness of application
• For murder
• Reasons for favoring
• Reasons for opposing
• Selected groups
• Versus life without parole

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