What are the decisive factors to be sentecsed to death?
I believe each crime should have the apporpriate punishment and i wanted to know what kind of factors judges do use to choose each punishment.
These are some common factors judges consider,
・whether it was the first-time to commit a crime or a it was a repeat offender.
・whether the offender was helping the main offender or if he was the main offender
・whether the offender committed the crime under personal stress or duress
・whether anyone was hurt
・the motivation
・the offenders age
However there are some cases that the sentence has a bias toward race and it is unfair.
As it is something really important what sentence the offender should get, i hope judges or people who have the right to make the choie be responsible and make sure there are no bias and o course flse accusation.
"死刑賛否に影響する要因と死刑判断に影響する要因".web.2014.23 July 2015.
<http://r-cube.ritsumei.ac.jp/bitstream/10367/5193/1/GL29_p081yamazaki.pdf>
Unfortunately, sociological research shows that there is a lot of unconscious bias. When a scenario was set up that first involved a white young man cutting the lock off of a bicycle in a park and then a black young man doing exactly the same thing, the people passing by the incident in the park were MUCH more likely to make accusations against the black young man and even call the police. None of them called the police when the white guy was doing it because they assumed that he just lost his key. None of the accusers thought that their actions were biased at all. It shows the power of unconscious bias.
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