id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cjrl-2314	Beckett, Katherine; Evans, Heather	Race, Death, and Justice: Capital Sentencing in Washington State, 1981-2014	2016	38	.pdf	application/pdf	19175	719	47	Although it is possible that Washington’s comparatively narrow statutory framework helps to explain the absence of race- of-defendant or race-of-victim effects on prosecutorial decision-making in aggravated murder cases, some extra-legal factors, including the size of the counties’ Black population, do significantly impact prosecutorial decision-making in Washington State capital cases. The following analyses therefore explore the impact of race on prosecutorial decisions to file death notices and, separately, on juries’ decisions30 to impose capital punishment in aggravated murder cases in which death notices have been filed.	cache/cjrl-2314.pdf	txt/cjrl-2314.txt