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Capital Jury Project  

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  • The Capital Jury Project (CJP) is a national study of jury discretion in death penalty cases that began in 1991. In order to conduct interviews with former capital trials in all major regions of the country, the CJP brought together a broad consortium of legal and social science scholars. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Capital Jury Project]

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