Witherspoon excludables

prospective jurors who so strongly oppose the death penalty that they are unwilling to consider it as a sentencing option and are therefore excludable from a death-qualified jury. The allusion is to the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Witherspoon v. Illinois. See also Wainwright v. Wittwainwright-v-witt.

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January 20th 2025

response cost

a procedure in operant conditioning in which certain responses result in loss of a valued commodity. The intent of such procedures is to produce punishment. See negative punishment.