However, in this test we were mostly interested in the pairwise comparisons among the different synthesis strategies for a single sentence rated by each particular viewer.
Nevertheless, also for this test we were mostly interested in the pairwise comparisons among the synthesis strategies for a single sentence rated by each particular viewer.
Nor did Southern states have higher death sentencing rates than the rest of the country.
The study considered several explanations for the range in sentencing rates, which is less than 1percentt in Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico and Washington State and more than 4percentt in Arizona, Idaho, Delaware, Oklahoma and Nevada.
It also limits the number of passengers on a motorbike to one adult and one child, raises fines for drunk driving and ups sentencing rates for offenders.
The report separates conviction and sentencing rates by comparable offences and pleas, excluding the possibility of the data being inaccurately skewed.
The report found that two counties with the highest death sentencing rates, Baltimore and Harford, were also the two counties with the highest rates of capital homicides involving white victims and black killers.
Laws that limit the availability of the death penalty to specific kinds of murder, like that of a police officer or witness, have lower death sentencing rates than those that use more subjective standards, like whether a murder was particularly heinous or atrocious.
Higher stop, search, arrest, conviction and sentencing rates for African American and Latino Americans are not reflective of increased prevalence of drug use or sales in these communities.
And when four of these prosecutors retired, death sentences declined dramatically in their jurisdictions -- a trend that researchers say shows individual personalities drove the death sentencing rates, not commitment to capital punishment by local residents.
