The Capital Jury Project: Rationale, Design, and Preview of Early Findings

In each of the eight states where the study was initiated, the target sample is 120 capital jurors (four each from fifteen death cases and fifteen life cases).For the six states that subsequently joined the project, the target sample is eighty jurors (four each from ten death cases and ten life cases).Cases in which the defendant was sentenced to death will be referred to throughout this Symposium as "death cases."Cases in which the jury imposed a sentence other than death, usually life imprisonment, will be referred to as "life cases."3. 408 U.S. 238 (1972) (per curiam).4. 428 U.S. 153 (1976).