Societal threat, authoritarianism, conservatism, and U.S. state death penalty sentencing (1977-2004).

McCann, Stewart J. H.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.94.5.913

Societal threat, authoritarianism, conservatism, and U.S. state death penalty sentencing (1977-2004).

On the basis of K. Stenner's (2005) authoritarian dynamic theory, it was hypothesized that the number of death sentences and executions would be higher in more threatened conservative states than in less threatened conservative states, and would be lower in more threatened liberal states than in …