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Researchers Want Residents to Develop New Standard for Applying Death Penalty to Cases

 
By John Douglas, Ann W., R.N., D.N Sc. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, Robert K. Ressler
 
Naples Daily News, June 5, 2006

Researchers want residents to ask themselves a question: What makes a murderer especially depraved?

Not as simple a question as some would think.

But a team of researchers with The Forensic Panel in New York are asking that very question of Floridians and other U.S. residents. They want people in each state to help them try to craft a new standard for applying the death penalty to cases — tailor-made to each state based on its residents' responses.