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Annotation Miller demonstrates how religion affects every aspect of the judicial system by focusing on religious appeals by attorneys in closing arguments of death penalty sentencing trials. She explores whether these appeals lead jurors to make legally impermissible decisions, as some courts have feared. Can religious appeals lead jurors to rely on the Bible instead of state law? Her results show that the more participants relied on Biblical authority, the more they relied on their instincts and the less they relied on evidence and judges' instructions. Gender, devotionalism, belief in a literal Biblical interpretation, and an individual's cognitive processing style also affected verdicts

Author

Monica K. Miller

Publisher

LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC; LFB Scholarly Pub.

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281307774

Subjects

Religion, Political Science, Law