Death Sentences

"Linguistic" sentences and "real" sentences

This p~$r Id~ntift~ iwe klr¢ds of sentences: "llngulsUc" sentences ~ J "r~al" a~-ntence~. "l't~,~ former is a kind of sentel~'~,e~ that ar~ often discussed in (cemputatkmal) Ungulstlc literatures, sucll as the:re In i:lgure 1. The latter, on the other hand, is a kind of senteace=~ that appear in practical applications, such as those In Flgu='e 2. Where~ts both are grammatical English sentences,...

Clustering Sentences - Making Sense of Synonymous Sentences

Some Sentences on Our Consciousness of Sentences

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Getting off Death Row: Commuted Sentences and the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment*

This paper merges a state-level panel data set that includes crime and deterrence measures and state characteristics with information on all death sentences handed out in the United States between 1977 and 1997. Because the exact month and year of each execution and removal from death row can be identified, they are matched with state-level criminal activity in the relevant time frame. Controll...

Life Terms or Death Sentences: The Uneasy Relationship between Judicial Elections and Capital Punishment