@article{b7a402248639454fad705de6196e5b18,
title = "They know not what they do: Unguided and misguided discretion in Pennsylvania capital cases",
abstract = "Interviews with capital jurors demonstrate that jurors base their decisions on incorrect assumptions regarding the early release of defendants, decide the punishment prematurely, and fail to understand jury instructions. The 74 interviews from the Pennsylvania portion of the Capital Jury Project add insights into the cumulative and relative impact of these three problems with jurors' decision making. Every juror demonstrated at least one of these shortcomings. Underestimating the length of a life sentence was related to considering death the only acceptable punishment and prematurely deciding on death, and the most strongly related to voting for death.",
author = "Foglia, {Wanda D.}",
note = "Funding Information: The Pennsylvania data reported in this article were collected as part of the CJP, a 14-state study sponsored by the National Science Foundation. William Bowers (Northeastern University in Boston) coordinated the data collection in this multidisciplinary study, working with researchers in each of the states. In Pennsylvania, John Lamberth (Temple University) began the hlterviews, and I assumed responsibility and oversaw the completion of the data collection in 1996 and 1997. Funding Information: * These data were collected as part of the Capital Jury Project, with funding from the National Science Foundation, Grant NSF SES-9013252. The author thanks Gina Lemanowicz and Megan Scott for their work as research assistants and Donna M. Bishop and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Address all correspondence to Wanda D. Foglia, Department of Law and Justice Studies, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701; e-mail: fogliaC/Vrowan.edu ** Wanda D. Foglia is an associate professor, Department of Law and Justice Studies, Rowan University. She received her JD and Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and publications are in the area of capital jurors' decision making and cognition and crime, and she has consulted and testified as an expert witness on capital jurors' decision making.",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1080/07418820300095501",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "20",
pages = "187--211",
journal = "Justice Quarterly",
issn = "0741-8825",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "1",
}