Juries Hearing Death Penalty Cases: Statistical Analysis of a Legal Procedure
研究了死刑案件中排除极端死刑态度陪审员的做法，发现这会产生对被告不利的偏见，即使这些陪审员声称能公正裁决。
Potential jurors in capital cases are often queried on their attitudes toward capital punishment. The extreme groups say they would never or they would always approve capital punishment, given a guilty verdict. In many jurisdictions, these two groups are routinely excluded from juries deciding whether the defendant is guilty in capital cases. This exclusion persists even when the potential jurors say they could be fair and impartial in deciding guilt or innocence. The current study shows that this exclusion creates a bias that almost certainly works against the defendant.